Jo, Caroline, David and Charlie in Singapore

Singapore is a strange place.

It's hard really to define what makes it so odd, and I guess the fact that we only had 3 days there to judge it undoubtedly makes our assessment a bit dicey, but during our time we...

Drank in a cafe where board games were banned.

Got asked to leave a restaurant for drinking beer which wasn't Halal.

Went to an island which had fake rocks and water pools and played a constant stream of piped music from the tops of palm trees (the trees also had plastic birds in them).

Watched a pirate show in 4D(!!) which featured violently shaking chairs that also squirted water.

Couldn't buy chewing gum (it's illegal)

That's not to mention the shops which were packed (even at 11pm at night) with people buying Gucci, Prada etc. I'm sure there are other darker and probably poorer sides to the island, but we didn't get to them in our time there.

It was so nice though to catch up with Amy's friends Jo, Caroline and David and their son Charlie. In the middle of such a weird and crazy country it was nice to spend time with some familiar faces.

Here are some pics of our stay