Swingapore...la la la

So there I was, fast asleep on a leather sofa in the Carlsberg bar at 5.30 in the morning when I get woken and not asked to leave, but instead would I like a beer. Which is ironic, and I'll explain why.

Flew into Singapore from Christchurch last night. Very sad to leave NZ and all that, its a good place and the crusaders were playing last night which would have made it a grand atmosphere. Anyway, so it turns out I have learned 3 things about the singapore culture:

1. It is very difficult to buy some pants
2. It is very difficult to buy a beer
3. When you do find pants and beer, the beer costs more than the pants.

I wasn't looking to buy them together or anything (that would have probably been quite a specialist shop - or a good story for cocktail parties), but couldn't find a place to buy either of them whilst wandering through the streets of Singapore. Some sort of map or idea of the best places to go beforehand would have, in hindsight, probably have been a good thing to have obtained, but using Ant's third law of logic "beer can never be far away" I wandered aimlessly finding one eventually just 20 mins before my last train was due back to the airport. Having requested a beer, I was then presented with two, not sure why but the country suddenly improved in my books.

So you can see, that having got back to the airport on the last train and settled into a sofa of a shut bar for the night, it was slightly surreal to be being asked if I wanted exactly the thing I couldn't find. But cheers anyway.

As some of you may have astutely guessed, unlike football, I'm coming home. Hope that isn't too unsporting of me (the football bit rather than me coming home, though that may be too).

Thanks for all those who have sent replies and suggestions of swearwords, facts and oddities and long may they continue into Namibia. Will be planning a tour of the uk to pester people over the summer before I head for Namibia in Sept, so if you want me to say hello then sign up here:

I want Ant to say hello. Signed.........................................................................