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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Singapore, Singapore by TravelPod blogger Mikeandgem titled “The shiny city” Mikeandgem’s travel blog entry: “Singapore – from the way people talk we’d expected everything to be absolutely spotless. They have their famous ’00 fine for chewing-gum’ law here but I’m fairly sure we spotted something on the pavement that looked remarkably like chewing gum. I suppose a city that boasts perfection is bound to attract people’s close scrutiny. In certain areas it very much does live up to the hype – they certainly know how to do shopping malls on a grandly creative scale. This would be shoppers heaven if we had any money or inclination. On day one we headed out of the hostel having being told by the guy working there that ‘Orchard Street was the place to go’. Orchard Street turned our to be a street lined end to end with designer shops – not quite within our budget. We soon found China town and the fairly incredible, if a little scary (Gem thought) temples, and watched as loads of people crowded round a statue of Buddha, trying to get close enough to give him a good rub. We spent a fair proportion of the day hunting down the library – a place for Gem to do some preparation work for a ‘Skype’ interview she was due to have in a couple days. Little India also proved to be very interesting – full of hussle and bussle with lots of strange sights and sounds. That evening we stopped there for our evening meal. Gem wasn’t so keen. I …
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Zhaoqing, China by TravelPod blogger Eddakath titled “Ding Ding & So Begins My Sixth Year in China” Eddakath’s travel blog entry: “Hey Hey and a Big G’Day toya, Can you believe that I have now been living in China for five years! Today began my sixth year adventure in the land of noodles. And how does one begin such a special day? With total confusion that’s how! Several nights ago whilst I was tapping away upon my keyboard and having a much needed coffee fix in the nearest Mc Donald’s I met a most delightful girl named Sofia. Upon meeting we both felt a natural and exciting ‘click’ and promised each other that we’d spend more time to get to know each other. Over the past several nights we have done so and today we happily headed to Dinghu Shan together. I can’t say the beginnings of my sixth year in China went according to plan as strangely and unknown to me the clock on my Nokia phone/camera had somehow raced ahead nearing two hours and as we had planned to meet at the local bus station at ten thirty this morning I obviously ended up there several hours prior. One must then begin to wonder how many days I have actually been living several hours out of time! Of course I had no idea at the time that I was ‘out of time’ and ten o’clock came and went as did half past ten, then eleven o’clock flew by and just as I was beginning to feel sad and let down a camera crew arrived to record the hundreds lining up to purchase …
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