Girl Sensible - Around The World

Up again with a hangover for an early flight. We flew to Johor Bahru to save some money and crossed the border in a taxi. In the midst of our last day yesterday we had forgotten to arrange our hotel for the last couple of nights.

Our taxi ride was fairly stressful, the hotel we had planned to stay in was fully booked and after calling about 10 others it was becoming apparent that we should have booked in advance and there was some conference or something on.

In the end we stayed in a well posh hotel for us on the 56th floor with incredible views (not that I could stand on the balcony!) but we will be paying for it for a while!

We had an amazing curry in Little India which was absolutely choca and did a little shopping, of course.............. a new pair of shoes :-)

The plan for the last night was to eat in one of the many fish restaurants by the quay. Once I saw all the crabs and fish in the tanks waiting for the enevitable I couldn't go through with it and we ended up having tapas at a Spanish restaurant with a healthy jug of sangria :-)

Today Asia tomorrow Australia!

Had a lovely swim in our pool on the 5th floor of our hotel, very nice indeed, the glass sides were cool swimming underwater!

From posh hotel to hostel here we come, we braved it by trying to walk with our backpacks in the searing heat to the MRT, not a good idea and just like day one ended up getting a cab. Peter Daniel has aptly named us flashpackers which at this rate, I think is a fair assessment!

Singapore MRT is great.

We bummed around the local area checking out the hawker stalls. For Di, Stef and Pam, I found the cake shop.......mmmmmmmmmm is all I have to say to you Xx

We found all the tourist areas sooooo expensive so in the evening we got the MRT to Little India and headed to a vegetarian restaurant recommended in the lonely planet, just what we wanted. I had a variety of curries on a banana leaf for 2 quid.

I arrived safely and found Karen quite easily. I was overwhelmed by the heat and humidity.
We launched ourselves straight into travel mode and headed for the bus to go to the hotel. 3 fustrated bus drivers later,we jumped into a cab! can't say that we didnt try!

We headed down the river in the evening and after fantastic bartering by Karen, took a rickshaw ride to Chinatown. We caught the fireworks and carnival floats for the last night of Chinese new year celebrations and had a quick chinese. Nothing else to say except i shall be sticking to vegetarian from now on.......