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Don't Meddle with Medellin Parque Botero We've just had a week in Medellin, now we arrived late at night after a long bus journey, the story of our lives. But we're relieved to have a nice apartment in a nice part of town. Sometimes it varies when you've booked something online. Nevertheless it was a lovely large apartment. Metropolitan Cathedral On our first day we went to the main square to go and see the metropolitan cathedral, statues etc. On our way to the square we seemed to go through the 2/3 block radius of motorbike shops, where they had their wares and such everywhere, pulling apart bits of bike on the side of the road, painting scuff marks on tyres black again. Less well off people raiding the bins of these motorbike people for more scraps to sell on. In fact we came across a whole market of re-claimed items a lot of which seemed to be one shoe. I hadn't particularly noticed a band of one legged people in town, but I did see a lot of peo...

Singapore, The Lion Nation Singapore is a tiny nation found at one of the southernmost points of Continental Asia. It is also one of the countries with the highest population densities in the World, Monaco narrowly beats it. Oddly though if I'm honest Singapore feels less busy than China did, admittedly this is probably because China has large spaces of sparse population whereas Singapore is essentially just one big thriving metropolis.  Tiger Jaw Succulents found at the Garden By The Bay To be completely honest I found Singapore looked fascinated but at the same time seeing that it had a higher population density than Hong Kong I was prepared to hate it. We arrived from Beijing airport in the early hours of the morning and stopped for coffee at a very suspicious establishment... Couldn't they think of a better name? But then we were on our way, straight across from one side of this small nation to the other where we were staying in what felt like a very ...