First evening in Singapore

Chilled out in the rooftop pool. 

Found somewhere to eat.

Pub crawl.  Well, two bars, so not much of a crawl

I walked along the road to find a nice bar.  Found a nice microbrewery.  Chatted to a chap there who advised me on places I might like to visit.  Went a bit further.  Chatted to an American businessman.  He accidentally bought me a beer since the staff evidently assumed we knew each other.  The company he works for can afford it I'm sure. 

Someone tried to sell me some skin cleaning products. Sales technique was a little too obvious.  Either that or I'm just a hard sell. Sales tricks are less effective when the mark is analysing the technique:) 

Got slightly lost which is always a good thing.

Went to bed.  Ohhh glorious sleep, how I missed you!

Singapore nightlife

Based on recommendation I went to the Night Safari - Singapore's nocturnal zoo. 

Pretty cool, although I doubt many of my pictures will have come out.  Some of these animals are soooo cute.  And some were invisible.  Lovely bats. Well worth taking the Tram Ride.  Get pretty close to those heffalumps.  The Bull elephant was on the opposite side of the path (and behind barriers) from the females.  He looked a little forlorn.  Poor lad.  Oh well, I'm sure the zoo arranges the occasional mixer.

Debit card refused to allow to to take money out of the machine.  May have to call bank over that one.  Will see what happens in Oz though.  Have another card, a decent hunk of Ozbucks, and some pounds, and card works for payments so this should all be okay for short term.

Have established that alcohol is pretty pricey here. Expect to pay at least a fiver for a beer. 

Other happenings of the day involve having a traditional Singapore breakfast (Kaya toast, runny eggs and coffee), visited the Toy Museum (a nice collection but not too exciting), visited the Singapore Flyer (large observation wheel), and had a look at the corkscrew bridge.  Lunch was from a local takeaway and involved duck and noodles.  For dinner I went to an Irish pub, had some chicken dish whose name I've forgotten but named after some asian place beginning with H and met a nice German couple.

The audio tour for the Ferris Wheel was fascinating.  The country is very strongly influenced by Feng Shui.

Tomorrow - not sure.  Sentosa island is a possibility but may be a bit lonely for one.  May raid Chinatown then chill out in hotel a bit or visit some of these other more low key attractions.  Or look at wikitravel's 3 day guide for ideas.  Internet is very useful for travel.  Wish I had a decent connection.