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Marina Bay Sands - Sky Park Pool<\/p><\/div>\n
As you can see, it looks as if the water (which actually does flow over the right-hand side!!!), just goes straight down all 52 floors to the ground.\u00a0 In fact there is a narrow walkway on the next floor down plus a catchment trough for the water which gets pumped back into the pool but even so, the effect is that you could just swim right over the edge!<\/p>\n
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Marina Bay Sands - Sky Park Pool's apparent sheer drop<\/p><\/div>\n
Behind the pool was a glass wall and I decided this Brave New May needed recording for posterity so David took a picture overlooking just some of the many ships moored offshore.\u00a0 I was not leaning on the rail belonging to the glass though!<\/p>\n
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Brave May near the edge 200 metres up<\/p><\/div>\n
We went back around to the start and sat on the decking under the shade of the small top-most floor just looking at the view one last time before we piled back in the lift to end our adventure.\u00a0 This time we had another 7 or 8 men with us but I still got my wall to lean against and was so self- satisfied that it actually may not have mattered for this one trip.<\/p>\n
We walked out of the door of Tower 3 and on around the bay past the complex they are building for the Youth Olympics in August.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a sign that tickled me enough to photograph it\u2026<\/p>\n
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The only danger was the sign - there were no steps<\/p><\/div>\n
Ummm, what steps?\u00a0 There weren\u2019t any!!!\u00a0 The only hazard was the sign itself in the middle of the footpath.\u00a0 And in fact, on the other side of it it said \u2018no public access\u2019 but we\u2019d just walked across the bridge where it had not said any such thing from the other side!\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to laugh!<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n We continued our walk, on around the bay and across the river via a bridge, always getting closer to the Merlion.\u00a0 There was a bit of a pier to walk along to get to his front view but it was busy so David declared that he was quite happy looking at the back thank you very much.<\/p>\n We were decidedly in need of lunch by this time, in fact it was about 2pm and we were very hungry so we walked along the bay front looking at the choice of restaurants.\u00a0 Many looked very expensive; many only had outdoor seating areas where smoking was allowed so after walking the 200 metres or so we ended up turning back to the first caf\u00e9 we\u2019d seen, the \u2018Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf\u2019.\u00a0 David ordered a chicken pasta dish and I had a Caesar salad and both were delicious, as we sat looking at the crowds around the Merlion.\u00a0 Additionally, it was really nice to sit and rest as we\u2019d walked about 8 kms by this time without a break on our already wearied legs from yesterday.<\/p>\n Setting out once more we decided to go to the famous Raffles Hotel so recrossed the river bridge and looked again at the map, realising it was still quite a walk in the wrong direction for getting back to our hotel and we didn\u2019t honestly feel like it so we turned back as far as the bridge and then turned right to head back to our hotel which was probably about 3 kms still to go.\u00a0 Our other reason for getting back to the hotel was to change to our double room and we felt bad that we were holding the twin room past the noon checkout time, though reception had assured us that this was OK.<\/p>\n On getting back to our Park Hotel we went to reception and they gave us the keycard for the new room, still on the 3rd<\/sup> floor, and just asked that we bring the old keycard back as soon as we\u2019d vacated the first room so we went to check out the new room.\u00a0 Woo hoo!!!\u00a0 The new room, with its door snuggled privately behind the lifts, was gorgeous!!!\u00a0 Quite a bit bigger, though still smaller than many hotel rooms we\u2019ve stayed; in, the room had an entrance hall with a kitchenette and wardrobe and room for the cases.\u00a0 Around the corner was the bathroom with a frosted glass sliding door and a clear glass wall beyond the shower looking straight into the bedroom.\u00a0 Very romantic!\u00a0 We liked it very much.\u00a0 Oh, and the view from the window was over the swimming pool which was one floor below.\u00a0 There were spa jets in the semi-circle part near the columns.<\/p>\n Park Hotel Swimming Pool<\/p><\/div>\n We took the keycard back to reception and then unpacked properly, very grateful to be able to do so, and then decided on a nice cool swim followed by a shower.<\/p>\n At this point, now I actually had space to move, and was nice and cool, I decided to do the bellydance for David that I\u2019d been practicing for months.\u00a0 I\u2019d also made a really nice costume to wear \u2013 much nicer than anything else I\u2019d had prior, so I went to get ready while he set up my laptop to play the music.\u00a0 In the past I\u2019ve felt nervous dancing for him but this time I was completely relaxed and happy about it and it went really well.\u00a0 It was a dance with some humour in it and he chuckled in the right spots like a good husband should and reported that he enjoyed it.\u00a0 And so did I.\u00a0 Yes he did take photos and no you can\u2019t see them hehehe.<\/p>\n After this we went across the road to \u2018the grey building\u2019 which was actually called UE Square, or was it EU?\u00a0 Anyway, there were 3 floors of shops and on the ground floor was a DeliFrance where we\u2019d seen people using laptops and David had seen a sign that said \u2018free internet access\u2019.\u00a0 We chose a drink and a cake each and I tried to log on but without joy so David went and asked and apparently I had to go somewhere to sign up (for free) with SingTel to then be able to get the free access.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t be bothered.\u00a0 I was happy not being on the computer while on holidays anyway and if it was going to cost us coffee and cake to log on each time it was hardly free!\u00a0 The hotel could supply internet for a charge but I really was happy to be away from it.<\/p>\n We enjoyed our cakes and then took the laptop back to our room, locking it in the safe with our passports and decided to set off for the opposite side of the river, past Clarke Quay, to where we\u2019d seen a long row of canvas roofed restaurants along the river-side earlier that day.\u00a0 Past all of the nice Clarke Quay restaurants and then under an underpass to the \u2018tent city\u2019 and no sooner there than people started to jump out at us to entice us to eat.\u00a0 They did this in a more gentle fashion in Clarke Quay as well but this was more insistent and caught us off guard so we didn\u2019t have our denial words prepared and caved at the first one \u2013 a Chinese food place.<\/p>\n Ho hum, it was not a wise decision.\u00a0 The lovely girl who had accosted us was replaced by someone who didn\u2019t seem to want us there and was not impressed that we chose 5 small dishes; she seemed to want us to choose large meals.\u00a0 Let\u2019s just say our meal was served belligerently.\u00a0 We\u2019d chosen \u2018broccoli with crab meat\u2019 to share which was really nice, David had lemon chicken which he liked.\u00a0 I ordered mango chicken but the meat had gristley lumps in it and the skin was crispy in the way that pork crackling is so I didn\u2019t eat it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t usually eat chicken and won\u2019t eat red meat but was too scared to order fish in case it came out with head\/scales\/bones and who knows what.\u00a0 Chicken had seemed a safer bet, so I\u2019m happy to take most of the blame for it not being nice to me.\u00a0 But the gristle was not my imagination.\u00a0 The \u2018pineapple rice\u2019 was served in a hollowed-out pineapple and looked very pretty but we both felt it had an odd taste so we didn\u2019t eat much of that either.\u00a0 David had a couple of beers and I had a Singapore sling but it was nowhere near the quality or size of yesterday\u2019s that had only been $1 more.\u00a0 We were very happy to finish that meal and move away from the restaurant.<\/p>\n David had to pay for the meal across the walkway in a permanent building.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t go in because they had crabs in huge fish tanks with their claws tied and that upsets me to see that.\u00a0 If it isn\u2019t bad enough they\u2019re about to be eaten, they are having their last liberty denied them as well.\u00a0 I \u2018loitered\u2019 out of the way and he was gone ages!\u00a0 When he eventually arrived he told me there had been eels and all sorts of other horrors in fish tanks inside the shop.\u00a0 It still makes me shudder now to think of it all.<\/p>\n Next page\/…<\/a><\/p>\n Please feel free to leave a comment in the fields below before leaving this page. 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