Day 1 - Tired, jetlagged - but curious

Arriving at the hotel at 9 a.m., we couldn't get into our room until 2 p.m. We looked for a restaurant to have a second breakfast (first for Karin) and after getting subway tickets we “sauntered” through Orchard Road, Singapore's main shopping street. Because of the heat and humidity, you can hardly stroll outdoors there. The “natives” stay in the air-conditioned, frost-shocked malls. There are also children's paradises there, fully electronic of course, and the students also do their homework here. 90% of the hustle and bustle is dominated by women, of whom at least 80% are busy with their smartphones and, above all, a striking number of young women/girls pose, make dance movements and thus create "content".

A short break to check into the room, shower, take a power nap and then head out again.

We went in the direction of the National Gallery and Marine Square - but had to take a long detour and couldn't get there where we wanted to go - because - the race track for Formula 1 and its equipment had been set up and fenced off. The taxi driver was absolutely right with his advice.

Many young and middle-aged people just sat on blankets they had brought with them, ate together, sang and sometimes forgot that Singapore has the reputation of being a very clean city.

After we had eaten our fill (with tiger beer) in a typical hawker (food court with seating), we made our way back to the hotel.

Some of the feeders to the subways run very extensively underground, but they are air-conditioned, the temperatures here sometimes reach 28 degrees even around midnight and the humidity remains high.

At around 9:30 p.m. we turned off the lights and finally slept, slept, slept…