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Andy says I have to write on this blog but I’m worried this will inescapably join me up to the ranks of uber-geeks who spend their lives publishing details of what they had for breakfast and what amusing glitches they foung in stray bits of code at 3am.
I guess the first reason I’m a bit abashed is that “travel writing” is supposed to be stocked full of barely believable humorous, stomach-churning or death-defying anecdotes, where your correspondant discovers a new way through the khyber pass whilst living in a yurt surviving off stale yak milk given him every morning by kindly villagers dressed in bizarre outfits who communicate only by making click noises.
Whereas the first thing that everyone knows about Singapore is that it’s not very exciting. The Economist has referred to Singapore as the dullest city in the world. This is a country where the powers that be have been known to implore their citizens to have “spontaneous fun”. There will be no arguing here with Maasai tribesmen dressed in traditional dress and carrying mobiles, no drinking millet brew in mud huts, and no lying awake on a Himalayan foothill in a tent as the heavens open and Jane snores happily away as we are invaded by cows.
However, in every country there is bizarreness and people rarely conform to stereotypes, so let’s see what happens. And if nothing happens, we’ll just post all our photos from Singapore zoo and Andy can record in pictorial form the disintegration of the one pair of shorts he managed to bring with him.
Jo 26 January 2007
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yehaaaa – I get a mention – even if its about snoring in a cow infested field – I GET A MENTION !!!!!
All your entries made me laugh so much!!!!!
Jane the snorer # Jan 26
They made Jane’s Mum laugh too – keep them coming, I love a giggle!!
Jean Mackridge # Jan 28