Dear friend Fi and husband RIchard dropped in for 24 hours en route back to England from Perth. This provided an opportunity for me to masquerade as experienced tour guide and catalyst for reuniting old friends. The photo gallery below tells the story! Click on each image if you want to enlarge
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- Fi and Richard on our Singapore river boat cruise
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- The old quayside dwarfed by skyscrapers
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- late night bars
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- the old and the new
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- old British build iron bridges – our captain liked them ‘very strong’
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- The Fullerton hotel, the old Post Office
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- very tall buildings!
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- more…
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- the Marina Bay hotel with a boat on its roof, a swimming pool in fact
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- Central Business District
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- HUGE
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- really attractive skyscrapers, many designed by NormanFoster
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- sideways on view of Marina Bay
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- the new botanical gardens
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- Fi Fi
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- Supreme Court (Foster again) – the glass represents transparency
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- Fi and Richard in Maxwell Hawker Centre for lunch
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- chicken rice with black pepper, roast duck, dumplings – all $4-5
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- local speciality – carrot cake, a kind of spicy noodle dish with egg
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- Maxwell food court
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- Chinese medicine shop – yuk!
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- and these dear little pipe fish
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- Fi and Richard in Haji Lane, part of the trendy middle east fabric area with nice old houses and bars
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- Sing: Cambridge reunion l-r Simon Rigby, Tubby Shenfield, MArk Greaves, Fi, me, Ross
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- Greaves and Fi
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- Rigby enjoying himself
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- Richard is allowed to join in the photos
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- The Peking Duck takes a fancy to Tubby
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- Chinese feast
vickygoestravelling 
March 23, 2013 at 5:40 am
Fab photos Vicks- you were a wonderful ‘experienced’ tour guide and we had such fun at the Cambridge Reunion- thank you for your brilliant hostessing! Fi xxx