Whilst I usually will pick an area of natural beauty over the city every time, having only ever lived in London and Birmingham the 2 largest cities in the UK the prospect was intriguing to me. Please note that this blog post most likely contains affiliate links to products or services I use and love!
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I reckoned I would be able to simply enjoy the time alone without wishing I was in with the crowd. Having arrived in the evening, the path was dimly lit on the way to Supertree Grove and I somehow ended up getting lost in a hedge. But it happened. Yet as I turned back to my hostel, even a typical city skyline of skyscrapers and luxury hotels peeked my interest.
Despite my reservations about modernity, here was a place which was undeniably attractive. You know the ones I mean? The one blown up in the first episode of Battlestar Galactica comes to mind but there are hundreds of references I could draw upon⦠Except for this one is cooler. Perhaps I shall share more about that later.
Since it was a national holiday in Singapore when I visited, I spent my second evening on the side of the bay with thousands of locals dressed in red. The celebrations consisted of army guys jumping out of planes, fly-bys by various aircraft and, of course, many many fireworks. It really is clean you may know already that no chewing gum is allowed at all there , it is statistically one of the safest countries to live, and whilst they are certainly ambitious, Singapore also looked towards the future in another way: I constantly found that they dolled out reminders of how human life is damaging the planet.
