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The Best Bits!

SEPTEMBER 2015A really naff title but I really can't think of another!Ok so we've now packed up our life into hundreds of boxes, that have sailed smoothly across the globe, and we have somehow squeezed...

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Moving to Mars...

Well it's final, after months and months, and after a trip to look n feel... and to smell... A couple of weeks ago the contract was signed for our move to Delhi for 3 years and now the fun begins!!!...

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4 Weeks back in Blighty!

Well it's been 4 weeks now since we arrived back in the UK. Our life is still on a container sailing from one small red dot towards this island and is due to dock on the 20th. In the past weeks our...

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Colouring Banda Street 2015

Carrying on with the theme of SG50 and the artworks decorating Singapore HDB areas, another community to get involved has been Kreta Ayer 'Chinatown'. Here the Kreta Ayer Residents committee got...

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Old Changi hospital (OCH)

This substantial, classic colonial style building on top of Barrack Hill, alongside Netheravon Road and Halton Road, sits among the old forces buildings that once made up Fortress Changi. Built by the...

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Holland Close sculpture

Just a photo post this time as I can't find anything about this.Its strange I can't find anything out about this, nothing at all. Why was it built? Why chose this location? Who was the artist? The...

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Goodwood Hill - Black & Whites

Just minutes from the bustling, hectic, modern, consumer age world that is Orchard Road and just a 5 minute walk from Newton MRT, sitting on a small hill, is a tiny piece of 'Singapore past', Goodwood...

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Brontosaur Park - Sculptures

It never ceases to surprise me what little gems you can spot in the most obscure of places here in Singapore. Whilst taking a walk around Pasir Ris in the East of Singapore, on another project,  I...

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Project Paint - Pasir Ris HDBs celebrate SG50

Well you can't miss that it is Singapore's 50th jubilee this year. 50 years since its independence and across the country celebrations are in full swing, building up to National Day in August. In...

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Alexandra Park - Black & Whites

OK so we have now walked south east through Rochester and Wessex Estates and we have crossed over the expressway of the AYE to the shadow of the Southern Ridges and have come to the simply stunning,...

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Wessex Estate - Black & Whites

Leaving behind the black and whites of Rochester Park  http://www.singaporetales.co.uk/2015/04/rochester-park-black-whites.html A short distance SE you will come across another estate of colonial homes...

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Our Hawker Centres - A Heritage & Art Project (Part 1)

40 Hawker Centres across Singapore are getting super art murals on their walls by July this year in celebration of SG50. More than 70 schools and organizations have taken part in painting them with...

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Syonan Jinja

This visit has got to rate pretty much top of all the places I have visited and explored here, what an experience! it has to sit right up there with Istana Woodneuk and the Jin Dong Fu festivities, for...

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Changi - Black & Whites

OK, so after months writing about visiting the Black and White colonial bungalows here this is, the final in the series I intend to cover. However they are many more Black and Whites that you can...

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Adam Park - Black & Whites

This has to be one of the most modern archaeologically treasure troves in Singapore. This and the surrounding area saw some of the most ferocious fighting between the Japanese and allied forces in...

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Bright Hill monastery and temple complex

Kong Meng San Phor Kark SooSitting on a large flat expanse of ground on what was once a Chinese cemetery, whose graves had long been exhumed, can be found the largest Buddhist monastery in Singapore,...

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A walk amongst the Black & Whites. Mount Pleasant and onwards......

Mount Pleasant, Malcolm Rd, Mount Rosie to Swiss CottageHidden behind the impressive Singapore Polo club and surrounded by Bukit Brown Cemetery on one side and the PIE (Pan Island Expressway) I hadn't...

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Bukit Browns secret temple

Sin Heng San Teng Temple or Lao Sua Temple.I had heard rumblings about this temple for awhile, hidden in the jungle of the Bukit Brown Cemetery and from reading and wandering I had deduced where I...

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Street Art of George Town, Penang (1) - Murals

Ok so George town and Penang may be a UNESCO world heritage town with its famous history of the Peranakans but one of the many many reasons I was keen to visit was also for its famous street art. In...

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Street Art of George Town, Penang (2) - Sculptures

Well you've looked at the previous post (hopefully!!) showcasing the murals of George Town, well this post is all about the sculptures which are a newer addition to the artwork in the UNESCO World...

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