Slinging from Singapore
Well, since we last left our breathless readers, much has happened. It's Sunday afternoon, and Lenka and I are in Singapore, getting ready to head home tomorrow. We split with Ian on Friday, heading our separate ways out of India, and just learned that in fact he's been stuck in an absolute travel nightmare. Apparently his flight to Bombay was cancelled, then he's been stuck there for two days awaiting a seat on a flight to Vienna. Of course he's dealing with the notoriously difficult and bafflingly complex Indian paperwork shuffle; please send him your best thoughts.
Lenka and I left Trivandrum with little hassle; but the colds that we caught there worsened during the flight. Between the sneezing, runny noses, sore throats, trouble equalizing ear pressure and the multitude of screaming kids, the red-eye flight left us utterly exhausted upon arrival. Of course then we had to kill 6 hours of time before we could check in, so we stumbled around like zombies, finally collapsing on our bed when it became available and sleeping the afternoon off.
Fortunately Singapore is completely on the opposite spectrum of ease and cleanliness from India. It's a beautiful, manicured country/state/city/island, with incredibly well designed public transport, services and far too many shopping malls. It's exactly what we needed after a month of intense, wonderful and tiring travel around Southern India.
After a very pleasant visit to the hospital ($15 USD for a doctor appointment!!), Lenka is loading up on antibiotics, and we seem to be getting better. We've ventured out a number of times, using our 2-day tourist transit passes for incredibly easy trasport on the subways and busses. We're actually grateful of the numerous shopping complexes, as they're so easy to dash into for a bit of agressive AC to cool off.
Singapore is also understandably famous for it's hawker centers, where you can find the most wonderful array of local street food. Since this country is filled with Chineese, Malay, Thai, Indonesian and Indian people, there's no shortage of wonderful things to eat. We've had noodles, and soups, and dim sum, and iced coffees; and the tropical fruits are such a treasure. Durian, soursop, dragon fruit (Lenka's new favorite, and my old favorite!), mangosteen, and a ton of others. We're staying near the Bugis MRT station, so there's a great local market where all these things are cheap and readily available.
Yes, as you can see, I'm clearly still obsessed with food.
So, it's been an amazing adventure, once again. We'll be going back and adding to this blog with more stories and photos, just as soon as we get home and get some real sleep. It's been ages, and we have some catching up to do.
Love from Singapore (and best wishes to Ian--hope he makes it to Vienna),
Mark & Lenka
Lenka and I left Trivandrum with little hassle; but the colds that we caught there worsened during the flight. Between the sneezing, runny noses, sore throats, trouble equalizing ear pressure and the multitude of screaming kids, the red-eye flight left us utterly exhausted upon arrival. Of course then we had to kill 6 hours of time before we could check in, so we stumbled around like zombies, finally collapsing on our bed when it became available and sleeping the afternoon off.
Fortunately Singapore is completely on the opposite spectrum of ease and cleanliness from India. It's a beautiful, manicured country/state/city/island, with incredibly well designed public transport, services and far too many shopping malls. It's exactly what we needed after a month of intense, wonderful and tiring travel around Southern India.
After a very pleasant visit to the hospital ($15 USD for a doctor appointment!!), Lenka is loading up on antibiotics, and we seem to be getting better. We've ventured out a number of times, using our 2-day tourist transit passes for incredibly easy trasport on the subways and busses. We're actually grateful of the numerous shopping complexes, as they're so easy to dash into for a bit of agressive AC to cool off.
Singapore is also understandably famous for it's hawker centers, where you can find the most wonderful array of local street food. Since this country is filled with Chineese, Malay, Thai, Indonesian and Indian people, there's no shortage of wonderful things to eat. We've had noodles, and soups, and dim sum, and iced coffees; and the tropical fruits are such a treasure. Durian, soursop, dragon fruit (Lenka's new favorite, and my old favorite!), mangosteen, and a ton of others. We're staying near the Bugis MRT station, so there's a great local market where all these things are cheap and readily available.
Yes, as you can see, I'm clearly still obsessed with food.
So, it's been an amazing adventure, once again. We'll be going back and adding to this blog with more stories and photos, just as soon as we get home and get some real sleep. It's been ages, and we have some catching up to do.
Love from Singapore (and best wishes to Ian--hope he makes it to Vienna),
Mark & Lenka
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