What not to do in Singapore.

Our journey through Singapore to Malaysia was nothing if not chaotic.

What do you do when everything goes wrong?

Only having travelled for a month we hadn't encountered any major bumps on our journey. Until Cairns. When Eddie's mouth got infected by a snorkel and we had to travel to Asia the

next day.

Eddie didn't become ill until we landed in Denpasar, Bali. His condition went from fine to unable to fly in less then 2 minutes. Due to the amount of pain he was in I tried finding medical help... in Bali Airport.

We found the customer service desk which sorted us out with an escort to the medical office.

Unfortunately Bali Airport medical office was not equipped with any medication other than diarrhea stoppers and an IV. Which, in hindsight, is quite funny, but at the time it was of no help. Eddie needed antibiotics. Something we would soon learn was a delicacy in Asia.

We were moved to the front of the plane and Eddie was offered a wheelchair due to the vertigo. Unfortunately he passed on the offer (one of his regrets) and we entered Singapore at 11.30pm with a very ill Eddie that desperately wanted a bed.

The next morning all his symptoms had calmed down except his lip which had flared up, thankfully we carry paracetamol on us at all times and that seemed to dull the pain.

We had only planned to spend 2 nights in Singapore so we had 1 full day to explore and really, that's all you need!

We first walked from our hostel to Marina Bay Sands and saw the famous Singapore Trees and Flower Domes. We thought the trees were much shorter than the advertisements boasted however the gardens were lovely to walk through.

We did the tourist loop past the Art Science Museum and into the city centre where we explored Singapore's Chinatown and grabbed some rather interesting lunch. I am still traumatised from eating what I thought was fried onion (it had eyes).

Both of us were exhausted after our 2 hour walk in 35 degree heat so we had a brief nap and headed out again in the evening to Little India.

Honestly Little India was our favourite attraction as it had the most going on. We could've stood there for hours watching the constant chaos in the streets. There was always someone yelling, playing music or coaxing us into restaurants and shops all the while dodging motorbikes driving on the footpaths.

Eddie was in a lot of pain at this point and we needed to find a doctor. The clinic we found quoted us $200 SG for a consult. Not including tests or treatment. We had planned on leaving for Malaysia the next day and decided to wait until then to find a more affordable doctor.

Eddie had however, depleted my paracetamol supply.

Here's when we found out, they don't sell medicine in Singapore!! We asked 5 different people where the nearest pharmacy was, they either didn't know or told us you can only get paracetamol from a doctor.

We then began looking for Chinese remedies in every convenience store (we were desperate) but we had come out empty handed.

On our walk back to the hostel we stopped in at a 7/11 and to our delight they had some Neurofen for $20 SG.

The next morning we quickly packed up and legged it straight to the bus station... anything to get to Malaysia quicker and Eddie to a doctor.

Despite Eddie being in pain, Golden Coaches bus terminal was our absolute favourite part of Singapore. We arrived an hour early to the bus terminal and instantly made friends with the organiser, Connie lee. She recognised Eddies condition immediately and brewed a mysterious herbal remedy to ease the pain. It genuinely worked and had Eddie feeling a lot better and able to get through the 2 hour bus journey.

Connie lee was iconic; frantically running around helping us and cracking jokes all the while. She humbled every passenger with her wit and gave one of the best seatbelt demonstrations we'd ever seen.

We couldn't thank her enough for helping Eddie, she also gave him another remedy to take with us.

Thoughts on Singapore

Singapore is known for its price tags and to be honest we didn't really understand why. The city is very livable and environmentally friendly but we didn't find the infrastructure or businesses any different to the other major Westernised cities. The country is tiny as well; a 15 minute drive to the boarder from anywhere in the city. Everyone brags about how safe and how beautiful it is, yet it doesn't have affordable healthcare for non-Singaporeans or accessible medicine. Singapore's culture comes from it's diversity, the oldest citizen is 60 as the country only just turned 60, meaning the Malaysian, Indian and Chinese influences have shaped this country.

Singapore really is just another city and we wouldn't have chosen to spend much more time there if we had the chance.

Ed's spread - Ed on Tour

Yes despite looking like the worlds laziest attempt at a transgender Kylie Jenner for the last week, I'm still on tour.

Now, I was extremely excited for Singapore, seeing loads of photos and videos online and hearing so many good things about it from people I know, I must say, I left Singapore feeling a bit underwhelmed. This could be due to a couple factors, first being that I obviously wasn't feeling too well and the overwhelming heat just left me exhausted. The second reason being, I am financially tighter than a ducks ass. Singapore does offer a lot of cool attractions and things to do however they all seem to cost an arm and a leg and with the way my lip was heading I couldn't afford to lose any more body parts.

Singapore did boast some pretty cool architecture, my favourite being the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, closely followed by the airport. One thing I didn't quite understand was all the hype about the famous trees, fair enough we saw them during the day time and apparently they're best at night but that said they were no way near as big as I imagined and honestly they just looked weird.

That's enough complaining like a spoilt brat (for now). I am going to tell you about a personal trip highlight from all our adventures. It is 2025 and the direction the movie world is heading it is only right I get to play the damsel (or d***head) in distress (whatever you please) for this story. After days of horrendous pain and sickness I laid eyes on my savior for the first time, at a bus station. If Wonder Woman was Singaporean it would be Connie Lee, within seconds of me entering the bus station she recognised I was in some discomfort and sat me down with an endless supply of Chinese herbal tea among other Asian remedies, which I still don't know what they were but they seemed to have quite the effect.

Not only did she attend to me so quickly but she was funny too, I recall her telling a young teenage girl, probably about 13 years old, that if she carried on eating pot noodles she would go 'boom'.

Overall Singapore gets a 6/10 just purely because as budget travelers you cant do a lot however it is full of great people such as my Queen Connie Lee.