The morning was spent packing a little and playing with the lovely littlest Stevenson!
We headed in to Singapore late today, plonking our weary butts in chairs back in Bakerzin around 3.30pm.
I’d love to say we enjoyed our sweet snacks, but I can’t, Col got a Strawberry shortcake and a coffee, while I had an Italian Soda and a ‘Royal Roll’. The roll tasted stale, and the Italian soda, was like soda water that had been threatened with flavour – yucky.
From there, we made our way out to Clarke Quay, it’s the ‘posh’ restaurant side of town, with little restaurants dotted all up and down both sides of the waterfront. It’s ‘hip’, stylish and it seemed bustling with people from the moment we arrived, to the moment we left.
We had a Groupon for a river boat tour, and while we waited for our vessel to arrive, I treated myself to an ice-cream from a little water-front Turkish ice-cream stand.
The guy serving me the ice cream did a number of tricks while he served me my ice cream, including a number of ‘you can’t catch me’ tricks, which resulted in a couple of Las-squeaks as I thought my ice-cream was seagull food at one stage!
The Hippo river boat cruise was an hour long cruise and our boat was pretty much empty. There were five of us on the boat, plus our guide, and, as she told us, that pretty much made it a private tour!
She was lovely and insisted on taking our picture at various points which was nice, it’s one of the things I hate about travelling as a duo, you need a third person to travel with you – just to take all your travel snaps!
It was a lovely spin around the river, I’d have loved for it to be longer, but there’s only so much to see around the river. The weather was hot, the sights were beautiful and the breeze was welcome! lol!
For dinner, we went in to Central shopping mall and wandered the floors waiting for something to jump out at us, as it turned out, we happened upon a place called ‘Mr Curry’, yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking (‘you ate in a place called Mr Curry??’), but we did, the menu appealed to us, the curry appealed to me and we thought we’d give it a try.
When we sat down and heard Jason Mraz, I knew it was the right place for dinner! We started with a salmon and cheese croquette thing, and a sausage appetiser thing, which came with, yes, curry sauce – I know, it sounds pretty crazy, but it was delicious!
My main dish was chicken Katsu curry – it wasn’t as good as Wagamama’s in Manchester with Bex and Matt, but it also wasn’t bad, neither was Col’s yakisoba!
When we’d finished, we hopped the MRT back to Vivo City mall, where we indulged again (I know, I know, indulgence seems to be theme for this vacation) in a waffle and some ice cream at a wee place called Gelare – it was yummy!
We stopped off at Giant to pick up some water and Coke Zero for the house, before we headed home for the night!
