Singapore in a Whirlwind

We made a stopover in Singapore yesterday, spending less than 24 hours there. However, we did manage to soak it up as much as we could, staying out until 2 am the night we arrived and getting up early this morning.

Singapore is a true confluence of cultures, where West meets East. It also has a multicultural society, although its various ethnic groupings (in particular, Chinese, Indian and Malay) appear to maintain separate communities rather than integrating.

It is also a shopping and eating paradise - Tova's kind of place! (And mine, at least insofar as eating goes). And basically, that is all we did: shop and eat. We started off with some delicious noodles and chicken and rice in Chinatown last night (the night we arrived) and then moved on to masala and curry for lunch today in Little India (which really felt like a completely different city).

Everyone was extremely polite and helpful to us, one man on the street even pointing out some squirrels playing in the treetops in a patch of rather sculpted jungle. And at the Indian restaurant, the waitress told Tova she was sexy, or perhaps "too sexy" (we can't quite work out which) at least twice. I can only assume that this was a compliment!