When it rains, cocktails pour

We'd made plans to meet Matthais and Rebekka, a couple who we met in the Nam. We headed for Raffles for some Singapore slings. They both were staying in Singapore enroute home to Germany. Miles, you were right as you do start bouncing into the same people as you travel, which is nice. The day was particuarly wet, when it rains here it certainly rains, not to mention the thunder and lightening so the only thing for it was to head indoors, for cockails. The S slings were pretty good, although horribly overpriced, but hey...when in Rome. Moving onto somewhat more budget friendly bars, it was more cocktails on the 74th floor of the Swissotel but they seemed pretty keen to charge for sitting down, the window seats of this place come with a extra charge of 20 bucks.

We decided against and it headed over to the newly finished Marina Bay Sands Hotel, inparticular the Skypark to take in the sun downer views. Hang on, noooooo, we didn't stay here although Fe's eyes lit up as the four of us walked through the main entrance. The feeling, "we've arrived" sprung to mind.http://www.marinabaysands.com/SandsSkypark/Sands_Sky_Park.aspx

To finish the night off we headed for little Indian were we had a great kashmir curry and few cheeky Tiger beers. Nice.

All slinged out the following day we headed for Sinagpore Zoo.  Set in a rainforest environment with a "open concept” covering 28 hectares and home to over 315 species of animal.  It was great to see so many animals and so little fencing between us and them. They have managed to enclose the animals by clever landscaping alone.

Like a lot of the countries we have visited Singapore was no exception with regards to history with war.  We visted The Battle Box , a WWII underground command centre that was constructed as an emergency, bomb-proof command centre during the Battle of Singapore.  After the war, the Battle Box was sealed off and its exact location forgotten. It was rediscovered in 1988, and converted into a tourist attraction.  It reminded us of the German underground tunnels in Jersey and Guernsey.