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As usual Laurie has focussed mainly on food. However we also did a lot of walking, seeing the back streets as well as the tourist bits. 

Singapore is an amazingly clean place. Not a piece of litter in sight. And plenty of street cleaners. Despite all the modern traffic the workmen still ride round in dilapidated open back trucks and the street cleaners use bike carts. The traffic flows smoothly and gives way to pedestrians. 

We had a fascinating river cruise round Singapore. The juxtaposition of the old original buildings in all their colourful beauty and the towering skyscrapers of our modern world. The world of commerce and material needs. And yet the same theme was there in the past - the taller the building the wealthier you were. 

Yet amongst the population there seems to be a respect of people and ecology.

80% of people live in public housing which they buy not rent. Once married, the employer pays 70% into a fund that you use to buy your house. A minimum rate of pay $1200 encouraged. All of this we found out on our shuttle bus drive to the airport. 

We also believe that our driver was surprised to learn that we had eaten in the local food market, which, according to him, was one of the best places for good cheap food.