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Singapore adventures – land of the green, humid and beautifully predictable rain patterns

Okay. Now that I’ve settled down a bit, I’m going to do my best to recount my Singapore, Japan and Sydney adventures.

This will be a very long post I think, considering it’s the first time I’ve been, and because there’s 72 pictures without coffee and stuff. Here goes nothing!

I’ve wanted to go to Singapore for a while, and what better reason to go than a stopover while on the way to Japan. I wasn’t sure exactly how many days I’d need there – all I knew was that I wanted more than an 8 hour overnight stopover. It turns out 4 days is about right, one more day would have been good too. The main reason being, there’s only so much you can eat in a single day!

The first thing I noticed as soon as I entered the airport was that it was green. There were plants in the airport! And it turns out there are plants outside the airport too! It’s such a green place! The humidity wasn’t too much of a shock to the system considering Sydney was stupidly humid earlier. In fact, I ended up really likingĀ how the humidity changed throughout the day because it made the rain predictable. I think that was one of my favourite things about Singapore! Does that make me weird?

For day one, I’d already marked a cafe to go to – Common Man Coffee. What I hadn’t realised was that cafes here open late. By late, I mean that Common Man opened at 7:30am. I’m so used to cafes in Sydney opening anytime between 5am – 6:30am that this actually made me deliberately shift my waking hours. The coffee stuff will be in a separate post, so I won’t elaborate too much more on it here.

Instead, let’s talk about the streets!

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