We did Chinatown yesterday. We took the metro and then just pottered around the markets, laneways and streets. Completely chaotic, compared to much of Singapore. Lively. Vibrant. Fun.
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| There are many murals like this in Chinatown |
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| Taking my Christmas tree for a walk :D |
Then we called into a large Buddhist temple complex
Stephen made the comment that we hadn't really seen very much sunshine while we had been here. I think he regretted that comment when the sun did come out - and it got quite hot!!
I think he regretted even more that he had also commented that he hadn't seen any of the torrential downpours that people had spoken of. As if on cue - the torrential rains came at the exact time we were setting off to meet Freyja in a shopping complex where she had found a vegetarian/vegan Japanese restaurant. We were completely drenched by the time we got there. Soaked through to my underwear, I was! Fortunately, the rain was warm rain, but I really could have managed without a tropical downpour!
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| Me - soaked to the skin at the restaurant |
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| Stephen's first taste of natto and his first attempt using chopsticks |
We walked back. The rain hadn't stopped, but it was no longer torrential and we were still wet anyway. And it wasn't far. Then we changed into dry clothes and met in the garden for our last evening's tipple. We're going home later tonight. Or, Freyja and I are going home. Stephen is also coming to Australia, but his home is in England. He's not going home until sometime later in January
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| They've Christmassed up the foyer in our hotel |
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