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Sunday champagne brunch at Raffles Hotel

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We couldn’t leave Singapore without having the famous Sunday champagne brunch at Raffles Hotel. It costs something like $130SGD per person but it is well worth it. The food is fabulous and the champagne is good and freely flows. My glass was never more than half empty before they would come back for refills. My favorite part of buffets is the dessert and they didn’t let me down. We had a good group and had a great time.

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After brunch, Ron and I had to rush back to finish cleaning out our apartment as our lease was up and we were going to stay over with my coworker Yuet Peng. We had to meet up with the leasing agent and the landlord’s representative to finalize our moving out then had a whole fiasco with getting taxis to take us to my coworker’s place in Choa Chu Kang. But we finally made with all our luggage and ourselves intact.

Indochine Waterfront Restaurant

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Today is our 4-year anniversary so Ron made a reservation at the Indochine Waterfront Restaurant. It was a bit gloomy and started drizzling as we got to the restaurant. We had a table on the patio so that we could see the river but the awning wasn’t quite long enough, so the water from the awning started to drip on our table. The wait staff kindly moved our table and rearranged the tables around us to keep the rain away.

We had the duck spring rolls:

They served us a lemon sorbet to cleanse the palate:

Steamed bamboo pith:

Roast duck with lychee and pineapple:

Cambodian Seafood in thick coconut curry (I think):

Our anniversary chocolate cake:

Tajimaya Japanese Restaurant in VivoCity

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Since we will be leaving Singapore soon and so will some of our friends, we wanted to get together and enjoy each others company and yummy food.

We decided on Tajimaya in VivoCity. We had agedashi tofu, combination sashimi, tempura, meat for BBQ, and pumpkin pudding. We shared a bottle of sake.

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All was good with the dinner until a few hours after I got home. I woke up with severe hives all over my hands and back. I don’t know if it was the sake (since the sake was the least expensive bottle) or the food (the spices)? but it was a bit scary and I ended up waking up to take Benadryl and lathering on hydrocortisone cream. I’m all ok now but it wasn’t pleasant for those few hours.

Our Itinerary

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Ron and I had a wonderful trip around Europe right after his INSEAD graduation. We had only a short time in each place so we hope that we’ll be able to go back again one day. This was our itinerary.

WED, July 2 –> Leave Singapore to Paris, France
THU, July 3 –> Paris & Fontainebleau, France
FRI, July 4 –> Fontainebleau, France
SAT, July 5 –> Paris, France
SUN, July 6 –> Paris, France
MON, July 7 –> Versailles & Paris, France
TUE, July 8 –> Paris, France TO Brussels, Belgium TO Amsterdam, Netherlands
WED, July 9 –> Amsterdam, Netherlands TO Milan, Italy (overnight train)
THU, July 10 –> Milan TO Rome, Italy (overnight train)
FRI, July 11 –> Rome, Italy
SAT, July 12 –> Rome, Italy
SUN, July 13 –> Rome TO Florence, Italy
MON, July 14 –> Florence & Siena, Italy
TUE, July 15 –> Florence & Pisa TO Venice, Italy
WED, July 16 –> Venice & Murano, Italy
THU, July 17 –> Venice, Italy TO Vienna, Austria
FRI, July 18 –> Vienna, Austria
SAT, July 19 –> Vienna TO Salzburg, Austria
SUN, July 20 –> Salzburg & Werfen, Austria TO Munich, Germany
MON, July 21 –> Munich, Germany TO Singapore
TUE, July 22 –> Back in Singapore

Sorry took so long to update about our trip. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind few months.

Munich then return to Singapore

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Our last day in Europe so we let ourselves sleep in a bit before heading down to the breakfast by the hotel which was fairly extensive including: juices, tea, coffee, CHAMPAGNE, eggs (scrambled & soft boiled), breads, buns, cheese spreads, jams/marmalades, yogurts, fruits (fresh & canned), granola, cereal, salami, ham, other cold cuts, gummy bears, and licorice. Not a bad spread, eh?

We headed to the train station to store our luggage. We were able to stuff in both our backpacks into a large locker for 5 Euros for 24 hours. After settling our luggage, we took the S (included in our Eurail pass) to Marienplatz to see the Glockenspiel at noon. We had a cappuccino and watched the clock performance.

Then we wandered towards the large English Garden and walked through the woods and by the “rapids”. Apparently you can ride the rapids through the park. We walked through the Japanese Garden, too bad the tea house was closed, but we enjoyed watching the swans and her two babies. We ended up at the Chinese Pagoda which is also a beer garden. We had their summer beer, a HUGE pretzel, a HUGE dumpling with gravy, and sausages. After we were stuffed, we headed out to the gardens around the Residenz and had a good nap on a bench. We felt like such bums sleeping on benches but after that beer, we felt so sleepy and fully.

After we woke up, we did some shopping around and exploring before heading to catch the S train to the airport. We arrived at 8pm and our flight was to leave at 9:10pm. The passport control had a long line so we were a bit scared that we might be late but even after going through to collect our tax-free rebates, we made it with plenty of time. We’ll arrive in Bangkok around 1pm on 7/22 and be back in Singapore at 4:20pm.

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