Rogerson's on the Road

Well here I am again, hopelessly behind with the travel news. I will upadte you with what we have been doing since we left Oz.

We flew from Cairns to Singapore with our fingers crossed that the bad luck of Australia would be left behind and in true Singapore style, the small city state soothed us. Singapore is place were everything works as it should, you don't even have to take your metroticket out of your bag for the machine to read it. Entry level Asia and the perfect antidote to our difficult time in Oz. Staying once again with Alison's Aunt Doris and the monosyllabic cousins Jamie and Jeremy.

We spent nine days in the city and even though it is our 3rd time to this small island we still managed to find and explore areas that we have not been to before. The beautiful Kampong Glam area of the city is a quiet Muslim area with a flamboyant golden mosque, breezy streets and interesting shops. The mosque's dome is constructed from brown drinks bottles, as the poor people of the area wanted to contribute to the building of the mosque and were unable to give money (interesting fact Number 1!). We visited the Night Safari with our very own bi-lingual, 8 year old tour guide Fiona (Alison's cousins daughter). We managed to have 2 evenings with a pack of Tiger beer sitting on Boat Quay watching the city come to light, the Singapore skyline lights up like Las Vagas at night.

But lets face facts, Singapore is about eating, it is a 24 hour, non-stop shopping and eating fest and as we are travelling and not in the market for shopping, eating was next on the agenda. We were taken for noodles with my Grandma, a morning feast of Dim Sum with Doris and to a Hong Kong resturant with Alison's cousin John (prawns in oats - sounds awful, I know, but they are amazing) and this was all between another visit to Newton Circus food court, the Maxwell Food Centre, afternoon tea at Grandma's, chicken satay sticks on the run and black seasme deserts (the best thing in the world although Neil is not even able to look at a bowl without feeling sick!).

So after nine days, we had to tear ourselves away and continue with our travels, as heart breaking and tearful as this was. We get the train from Singapore to Kuala Lumpar.