Dim sum in Singapore

After a pretty cruisy 4 hour flight I've landed back in Singapore. I've been here a few times but this is probably the first opportunity to have a decent look around. I've tended to look at Singapore as a place to connect from one flight to another, but it's not such a bad place to spend a couple of days.

I've met up with an old friend from Toronto - Jen - who I met in Vinales, Cuba, while travelling with a bunch of exchange teachers in sunny Cuba to escape the Canadian winter. She's a pretty dedicated traveller, and I'm a bit worried about keeping up! This is Jen's first trip to Singapore and she's keen to have a look around, so I'm along for the ride.

Raffles Plaza - Singapore

We headed on the MRT (I wish Adelaide had one of these - not likely...) to Raffles Plaza, before heading into Chinatown for a bit of a look around. Had dim sum for lunch and it was great to be eating good Asian food in the place where it's meant to be eaten.

Chinatown

Will be off to Marina Bay for the fireworks tonight to see in the New Year. I don't think I'll be firing up too much - bugger all sleep last night, considering it was spent in airports and planes.

My new travel toy

Well it's Christmas but my most engaging new toy to date is one I bought myself. It's an Archos 605 wifi. This little device plays video and music and can also surf the net on wireless hotspots. It also stores PDF files, so I've downloaded a whole heap of PDF travel guides off Travelfish (the best South East Asian travel website out there, bar none). So hopefully this will keep me entertained and informed on the road.

I put this here because I wanted to figure out how to add pictures...


The thing is a bugger to type on though, having to use a virtual keyboard. Hopefully my speed with typing will improve. The worse thing is that it takes two clicks to get commas and apostrophes, so if my grammar starts to slide it's because I've been lazy.

Am in Adelaide at the moment, and fly back to Darwin on 30 December and then onto Singapore for New Years Eve. Then onto Laos, Thailand and maybe a few days in Bali on the way back to Darwin. Haven't booked the return ticket as yet, since I thought I might keep going. But I resist the urge for a bit longer as a six month job on Groote Eylandt is on the cards, which could be a bit of an adventure!

Merry Christmas by the way.