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Today we took things easy. (again?) Nah, we've earned some relaxing, right? So sleep out (especially compared to our host who gets up at 5am for work) go out for breakfast (& get some fresh bananacake from host his mother :-)) and afterwards work on the bikes. They needed a good cleaning & some fresh oil after almost 1500km. Then it was time to move host, a small 10km more up north to Yann (through warmshowers.org). A real friendly guy who just loves riding his bike & is planning a long worldtrip one of these days...his target for leaving up through malaysia is June...it should take him about 2y before he reaches us back in belgium to redo him the favor of hosting.
He joined us for an
other trip downtown trying to exchange some books (which didn't work unless we wanted to be ripped off, 2 books + 8$ for a used book!...do we look stupid to you?), some chinatown food court dinner, a stroll along the quay & a final drink. He lives in a government block (about 3000 person/block) they call the 'cookoosnests'. He has block nr 470 in his area, so start making the count...btw it is not possible to buy a house in sgp, you can lease an appartement from the government for 99y...mmmm, shady mechanism...+it prevents the really rich from owning all of sgp -property can never be an investement...always ups & downs. The area is opened up by an LRT (rollercoaster bus on rail) running through it to get everybody to work & back every day. The funny thing is that it runs close to peoples homes & to guard privacy, the windows on the bus automatically go shady at certain points...very scifi ride.
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Today we took things easy. (again?) Nah, we've earned some relaxing, right? So sleep out (especially compared to our host who gets up at 5am for work) go out for breakfast (& get some fresh bananacake from host his mother :-)) and afterwards work on the bikes. They needed a good cleaning & some fresh oil after almost 1500km. Then it was time to move host, a small 10km more up north to Yann (through warmshowers.org). A real friendly guy who just loves riding his bike & is planning a long worldtrip one of these days...his target for leaving up through malaysia is June...it should take him about 2y before he reaches us back in belgium to redo him the favor of hosting.
He joined us for an
other trip downtown trying to exchange some books (which didn't work unless we wanted to be ripped off, 2 books + 8$ for a used book!...do we look stupid to you?), some chinatown food court dinner, a stroll along the quay & a final drink. He lives in a government block (about 3000 person/block) they call the 'cookoosnests'. He has block nr 470 in his area, so start making the count...btw it is not possible to buy a house in sgp, you can lease an appartement from the government for 99y...mmmm, shady mechanism...+it prevents the really rich from owning all of sgp -property can never be an investement...always ups & downs. The area is opened up by an LRT (rollercoaster bus on rail) running through it to get everybody to work & back every day. The funny thing is that it runs close to peoples homes & to guard privacy, the windows on the bus automatically go shady at certain points...very scifi ride.
You seem to like the rollercoster Ardan. xxx
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