Showing posts with label alley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alley. Show all posts

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Chinatown and Downtown

A few shots from my walks around town this week. 

Stopped to take a look down this street with the lamp posts and the older buildings as well as the tall modern buildings from downtown in the background. 

This was my favorite alley photo of the day.

A close up of the sign. I'd like to blow this up and hang it in our entryway, like instead of the typical welcome mat :)

Some of the older refurbished shophouses with the HDBs and part of the city skyline.

Behind a temple, a mix of old and new.

Old shophouses converted into clubs. Wonder if it gets busy here at night?

Food street signage. 

Happy Friday!!!






Thursday, June 13, 2013

Sights to be seen.

Here are a few things that you see on a daily basis in Singapore that is a bit off the touristy path. Sort of a behind the scenes but sometimes they are hard to not see anywhere you are. I love them all because this is what makes Singapore so unique.


Cannot go anywhere without seeing cranes. There is so much construction here. I read a book by Lee Jing-Jing titled, "If I could Tell You", I recommend it, great book! When I see these cranes I think about that book. It is about how Singapore's landscape is changing so quickly people feel as if they do not recognize their own hometown. 


A new neighborhood coming along in Punggol.


I like to look at the alleys. The next few shots are alley pics. 



You can even see cranes in the background of the pic below :)


Alley art?


Nice row of shop houses on one of the oldest streets in Chinatown.


Beautiful 5 foot way. Some of the older streets have shop houses with these 5 foot ways to provide a shaded walkway. The first floor is usually a shop or restaurant and the second and third floors can be either shops or homes. 





I love seeing the laundry hanging from the apartments. Most people here do not use a dryer, they just hang their laundry. I wonder how often they loose things?






I know I put up a lot of nature pics but I love that Singapore is known as a garden city. It is very green and pretty, parks are never too far away and there are so many it is easy to escape the city and find a peaceful place to be.



Dragonfly on a lotus flower.


The very small cranes in the background are an oil refinery??? maybe??? I took the pics for the pretty clouds. I was about a minute away from heat stroke and was VERY happy to see clouds coming in!!!