Sometimes you’ve just got to get away. Especially when the partner in the household is really looking forward to traveling and getting a new stamp in the passport. So, for the Marine Day holiday weekend last weekend, we booked a trip to a place we both had wanted to visit for a while: Singapore.
The story behind Singapore — former British colony, now a economic powerhouse of a city-state — is pretty well known. And it’s easy to see both sides in the current city as well: the British colonial buildings, the high-rises and shopping malls, the blending of cultures that Singapore has built itself on since becoming independent in the last half century or so.
But that’s not the only reason we were here, though we did see quite a few museums in our trip. The reason was to explore, to see friends, and to eat!
It’s a very big, and modern, and humid melting pot — the influences of various cultures felt in a way that’s similar but also different to how it’s handled back home in the good ol’ United States.
I think I’ll have to break one post into multiple, as there’s a bit more to post from the trip. And when thinking of where to go, while I do want to visit a lot of places, I wouldn’t mind if I wound up heading through Singapore a second time.
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