Brixton, bustling, bohemian

 

The streets thronging with people

Old and new architecture. Art deco. Neon.

Mural and music at the station. And the aroma of marihuana. 

Everything and everyone all around you. Happy smiling youngsters. Sad, shuffling old people. Beggars lying propped up against the wall with signs. Groups gaily greeting each other. Singles and couples dancing along. McDonalds for fast food. Morleys department store opposite the station for fashion and big name brands. Wide pavements crowded with people.  It feels like you have got in free to a festival. Or a hairdressing contest. Just like the rest of London. But more so.

We changed from train to bus here, in busy Brixton. We were on our way to quiet, elegant, empty Dulwich, a complete contrast.

Strings of red double decker red buses take you from Brixton back into London and onwards around the area and out of London. 

Useful website on Brixton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brixton

Tobacco Dock, Wapping, what's inside and nearby?

East of Tower Bridge on the north bank of the river Thames, is Wapping, a name which probabl meant marsh. The marsh was drained to make docks on the river Thames, with lots of assocations with trade worldwide, Wool and leather from sheep in Australasia, tobacco from Virginia. The Prospect of Whitby pub is a local landmark and being familiar with the history of the East End I was interested in the mural showing the Battle of Cable Street.

I went to Tobacco Dock, a restored historic venue, to the BCB beverage, bar and spirits show. On the way my day started with a visual reminder of the past of the area, the mural recalling the Battle of Cable Street. The mural is by several artists and was inspired by the style of Diego Rivera whose lively political murals crowded with tough wroking people I had seen in the USA.

The giant Battle Of Cable Street mural. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

We walked, 5-7 minutes from Wapping station,

The Battle of Cable Street Mural

We walked through St George's Gardens, a park with a giant mural on the side of the town hall at the entrance. The mural shows the famous 1936 event, They shall not pass blockage of the demonstration march by Mosley and fascists through what was then a Jewish area.The mural was on our left.

The St George's Church

Shortly afterwards we passed the church on our right . Gravestones leaned around the outdoor walls in front of the open area.

The Monument to Brewer & Philanthropist Raine

 In front of the church was a monument. 

The monument to wealthy widower and philanthropist, brewer Raine, in St George's Church, Wapping.. Photo by Angela Lansbury. 

I diverted to read about who it commemorated. That man, Raine, was a wealty brewer had devoted his life to the church and charity after the death or his young wife, Sarah, who died 6 months after they married. He never remarried. He gave money for a school for 50 boys and 50 girls. When they left school, the boys were apprenticed to .trades and the girls went into domestic service. The school lasted until 2020

I got to thinking about the boys having their apprenticeships arranged by the school. Surely modern school leavers should not be cast out after merely being given advice, and left to find jobs. Every school and university should have an onsite office arranging jobs, helping compose CVs, printing CVs, oragnising references, training leavers for interviews. Checking that pupils are studying subjects which will get them qualifications required by employers and universities.

I saw a moored boat. Two replica boats were built to teach local children the history of the area.

Then we reached our destination. Tobacco Docks. No sign of the history of the docks, nor of tobacco, but it's all online.

Cable Street Museal close up. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Tobacco Dock. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

However a very distinctive building. I met the venue on one of the hottest days of the year. The building would benefit from being completely enclosed by a rectractable roof when weather conditions such as snow, or rain or excessive heat require it. Instead open walkways lead between air conditioned side halls and smaller rooms.

BCB Events

Big Max wearing many hats at the BCB bar and beverage show in June 2025 at Tobacco Dock. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

However, the BCB Bar Convent management did a great job. They had water bottles and water refill points and aair con in the rooms containing stage areas. You really felt you had visited old London, restored.

Getting There

Wapping (Overground) and Shadwell (Overground and DLR) stations.  Wapping station is one stop on the DLR, changing at Bank station, on the northern line from Euston. (Also several other train routes and buses.). 

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Street_Mural

A long detailed researched and photographed history of the docks 

https://www.londonshoes.blog/2022/04/20/all-about-tobacco-dock-wapping-london-e1/#:~:text=Two%20replica%20'pirate%20ships'%20%E2%80%93,moored%20at%20Tobacco%20Dock%20today).

http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/raine.html#rainememorial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Dock#:~:text=Games%20in%20London.-,Current%20use,including%20its%20attached%20car%20park.

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Eggholic - egg-citing and eclectic, Indian style restaurant opened May 2025 (in NW London)

Egg-holic Restaurant in Hatch End, Pinner, London, England. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

 I entered Egg-holic in May 2025 (Thursday 8th), their first full evening open to the public. It's a friendly family affair. The Patel family. Two Hatch End Patels are running the franchise, father and son. I met mother, and she pointed out that her daughter had popped in. 

Angela Lansbury,  left, Mrs Patel, right. Egg holic restaurant menu board behind. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Plus the two US-based Patels (unrelated) who started the business over in America. They were staying around for the first two weeks to supervise the cooking and add their experience and expertise. 

Since everything is cooked on site, the American founders have needed to train the new UK staff how to cook all the dishes to ensure everything in the UK is consistent with the standard, style and menu in the USA. However, it's possible that the long menu might have one or two seasonal or permanent additions later in the year to offer regular customers a new experience. (Patel junior had already spent time in the USA.)

I shall come back to the Patels in London, England, India, the USA and worldwide. But first let's look at the menu.

The menu on the back wall. The mural in Indian languages on the right. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

The illustrated menu is over the counter at the back, like in McDonald's, Costa and other places you are probably familiar with.  But there's also a fold over paper menu if you want to sit and read the menu. 

You carry a number, signifying your order, to your table. You can pay first, with a credit card. In that way it's like the Wetherspoons pub across the road.

The Indian and Western Food

You can find egg dishes, chicken dishes, and cheese dishes. 

Among the sandwiches for children I spotted cheese (minced) and chocolate (spread) sandwiches. With white bread (brown bread should be available later).

It came with crisps.  Check whether chips on the menu means crisps called chips in the USA.

You can try samosas. Potato.  Indian breads.  

There's also a Thali, at £13.99.

DRINKS

Drinks include assorted lassis. I had a pink rose flavour falooda, with a wide straw for sucking up the thin noodles.

DESSERTS

Desserts include Kulfi, Gulab Jamun with ice-cream, or Brownie with ice-cream.

DECOR

The Indian Style Decor

A screen shows Bollywood films with lots of dramatic dancing. 

A large version of their logo is on one recessed wall.

On the right of the serving area at the back is a mural in assorted Indian scripts. They are hindi, gujurati, Punjabi and Telugu, popular well-known sayings from various blockbuster films.

All the family and the USA visitors were friendly and chatty and happy to chat about their business, your business, and the world. They told me that the Patels originated in an Indian state north of the seaside port of Bombay, now called Mumbai. Being business savvy they spread all over the world so now you will meet people called Patel in the USA, UK, India, everywhere there are money and friends to be made. As the old saying goes, if you want to run a successful restaurant or shop you must wear a big smile.

Opening times.

They are open 5 to 10 pm, so for tea time or evening dinner, not breakfast nor lunch.

Phone (0203) 7933 0179. 

381 Uxbridge Road, Pinner HA5 4JN.

I visited when they opened in Hatch End, Pinner, London on Thursday May 8th 2025.

Useful websites

https://leverageedu.com/explore/infotainment/translation-of-hindi-bollywood-dialogue/ 

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Update Oct 2nd 2026. 

A sign in the window says they have relocated.

The new venue will probably be announced on their website which mentions the USA, Canada and the UK.

https://eggholic.uk/

Anne Frank Sites To Visit in Amsterdam and Around the world

Memorial to the Anne Frank tree, Russell Park, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK.

Mural showing Anne Frank. Pastorplatz, Aachen, Germany. Achen, Pastorplatz 1. 

Stolperstein (stepping stones) in Aachen for Anne Frank, her sister Margot, and their mother Edith.

Statue of Anne Frank, Westermarkt, near the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Marot Frank and Anne Frank gravestone style memorial with star of David in Bergen Belsen, Germany.

Anne Frank mural, with blues, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Anne Frank statue.

English: Anne Frank lived with her family in a flat at Merwedeplein 37 before they "moved" in their hiding place. This statue of her is standing on the square. The piece of art was created by Jet Schepp. Deutsch: Anne Frank lebte mit ihrer Familie in einer Wohnung am Merwedeplein 37 bevor sie in ihr Versteck im Hinterhaus fliehen mussten. Diese Statue von ihr steht auf dem Platz. Die Statue ist ein Kunstwerk von Jet Schepp.
Date	3 May 2019, 11:32:15
Source	Own work
Author	Citius Altius Fortius

Statue of Anne Frank with suitcase. Photo from author Maula.

Anne Frank, Amsterdam

Boise, Idaho, statue of Anne Frank looking through a curtain.

Memorial stones for Anne Frank, which appear as a star of David when viewed from the air. In Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Useful Websites

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/otto-frank/ 

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/

https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/support-us/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monuments_and_memorials_to_Anne_Frank

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statues_of_Anne_Frank

https://wanderwomenproject.com/places/anne-frank-statue-in-new-orleans/

What To See and Do In Holland Village, Singapore

If you want some traditional furniture or knick-knacks. Lim's Arts and Living.

 

When I first went to Singapore I thought that Holland village had been a Dutch area. A friend of ours was the PR lady for the Dutch club. However, apparently this is not so. 

Three Windmills

The windmill is a good reminder of the name of the area. A large one was placed overhead, hardly visible from below, on the roof of the shopping mall. Alas no longer there in 2022 April. A second small one is at the entrance to the Holland village Market and Food Centre. A third is depicted on the mural on the station platform of the yellow Circle line. There was another on the indoor walk towards and from exits B and C.

But the name Holland Village comes from a Mr Holland, an architect and actor.  The windmills appeared later to match, to echo,  the place name. You certainly don't see much now related to Holland. Though you do see a lot of ex-pats mingling with the locals, because the area is full of restaurants.

In the centre is the open sided Holland Village Market and Food Centre. This will have the cheapest food and simple seating.

On the street level of the oldest mall, the Holland Road Shopping Centre, is a supermarket. 

Upstairs are interesting shops. I like the two big shops which are nearby each other, one selling clothes, the other selling household decor, furniture, ornaments. For even more bargains, a small shop opposite the clothes shop has competitive prices. Dresses under 20 dollars. 

Ciabatta in coffee shop.

Furniture shop.

Dress I bought from clothes shop, Lim's, Holland Road Shopping Centre, in Holland village. The cost was about 15 dollars. Just a plain shirt dress with two thin pieces of matching belt to tight it at the back and tighten it. But such a jolly colour. I bought another dress of the same style and price and pattern in a more muted blue.

Angela Lansbury wearing a tropical hibiscus pattern dress, bought in Holland Village, Singapore. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

A second shopping mall has been built the other side of the road by the other MRT exit.

The station has three exits, A is nearest to the ticket office and on the same side as the Raffles mall, open in 2022. At the end of the walkway, far end from the ticket office, exits B and C take you under the road and to the other side of the road .

If planning lunch with friends, have a backup plan of where to go if the lunch time queue (Americans say line-up) is too long. If you are two couples, and one couple arrives early, they can secure a place in the queue. But you don't want to claim a table too early in this situation because you might find that you are expected to choose your food, or are tempted to start, if the food is on a conveyor belt as in Sushi Tei (Sushi Thai).

More information on Sushi Thai is in the previous post. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Village,_Singapore

https://holland-village-singapore.com/holland-road-shopping-centre-directory/

More photos

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Holland_Village,_Singapore

https://landtransportguru.net/holland-village-station/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus_rosa-sinensis

Create funny mock-plane seats at home and watch your/others' videos for Armchair Travel

The idea of pretending your washing machine is a cruise ship window is so ridiculous it is funny. An inflatable pool with bar stool in your back garden (or back yard as the Americans say) is better than nothing. I shall start with serious guides, then end with the amusing mock destinations.

I am very content travelling the internet. I could spend months searching through information and enjoying discoveries, planning trips which might take place later this year, next year or never.

What can you do to recreate the pleasures of travel:
Practical Pictures
1 Watch videos (made by drones)
2 Project seasides or forests onto your living room or bedroom or kitchen or bathroom or outdoor walls
3 Print your favourite photo large and frame it
4 Use your favourite holiday or business trip picture as your laptop's welcome screen
5 Use your favourite holiday or business trip picture prjected behind you as your backdrop
 when videoconferencing using Manycam
6 Compile a serious guide to your city or your dream destination using route planning guides and photos from wiki. Start with your heroes and heroines such as Anne Frank, Helen Keller, Jesus, American Presidents, Elvis, Freddie Mercury and city destinations, mountains, beaches or treks.

Amusements
Create a jokey mock up of plane or cruise travel to amuse your friends, using
1 Hotel pool
Deckchairs in the garden by an inflatable pool.

2 Hotel Pool bar
Bar stools and cocktails by kitchen work surface. Stick poster of distant hotel on wall.

3 To recreate a cruise ship window or airplane window.
Washing machine circular front windows. Stick picture of outside scene on outside of window or inside.

4 To create a plane interior:
A bank of chairs alongside or behind each other with masks or saved airline socks or paper sick back and airline magazines. Wife (male or female) wearing tight skirt with small hat and scarf or baseball hat from tour company carries meal on a tray.

5 To create airport lounge
Airlne magazine covers stuck on magazines to recreate an airport lounge. Add wheeled bags and briefcases. For seatbelts, and remove clip straps from shoulder bags.

5 A mock plane toilet
Remove all your other clutter leaving only your saved free zip up flight bags and disposable toothrushes.
Printed signs above your batrhoom (rest room) or toilet door.
Signs can say;
Occupied.  .
Return to seat.
Stand outside looking glum holidng a magazine and looking at your watch.

6 Mock Destination Video
Take your favourite clips and create a guide to your home city.
If all else fails, just photograph your garden or the view from your window and do a mock travel guide to nature of city life.

7 Holograms
Hologram of yourself or wildlife.

Entertaining and Educational Websites
From Wiki

• Comparison of bicycle route planning websites
• Google Transit
• Rome2rio

• Rutebok for Norge
• Transport Direct Portal

• Traveline
• Walkit.com

VIRTUAL TRAVEL USING SCENERY

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200330-covid-19-virtual-travel-during-coronavirus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManyCam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualtourist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Key
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_learning_environment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_virtual_tourism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography

AMUSING JOKES ABOUT RECREATING TRAVEL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/04/15/people-miss-flying-so-much-theyre-re-creating-airplane-experience-home/
https://www.insider.com/tiktok-recreating-flight-experience-inside-laundry-room-2020-4

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. (Not related to the actress.) See books and profiles on Lulu.com and  Amazon and videos on YouTube.

Art On The Station, At Holland Village

Art on the station at Holland Village reminds you where you are.
Here is the platform.

I wish the artist had drawn it with clearer outlines.

Here is the colourful corridor mural leading to and from the exits to the street.



This is an interesting composition. The red is lively. The sails of the windmill are light. The russet red or orange add warmth.

Instead of the usual figures of people black against white or colour, here we have the people silhouetted white on colour. You could stand in front of one of the silhouettes for a selfie. The figures are spaced out, like the people walking past in the corridor.

Clear images and bright colours on artwork are welcome, as is anything to lift your mood.

Useful Websites
http://blog.smrt.com.sg/smrt

About the author.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Giant Cartoon To See - The big mural at Newton MRT station in Singapore

The tiny tasters of this artist's amusing artwork are along the corridors at Newton MRT station.

 The small ones make me keen to see more of the artist's magestic mural, which sails passes too quickly when you are on the escalator.

What the passener sees. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

As you - actually I mean I - rush out to a meeting, you have no time to stop and enjoy even the small ones. Everybody is too busy, being Singaporean and kiasu, meaning keen get ahead or don't miss out.


But coming back late evening when the crowd has thinned out and you are not in such a harry to arrive on time. So you can take a leisurely look and, in my case, take a photo.

I dodge around, trying to stop the reflected lights runing the picture, to also minmise distortion from looking up or looking sideways. My husband has a professional picture editing program you can use to minimise distortion, but it takes half an hour per picture, which would be fine for a rofessional photography being paid, or an amateur entering a contest, but when you want four pictures for a blog post, and so spend less than three hours on one post, not such an urgent task.

However, seeing and photographing to see later the big mural is more of a challenge. I usually rush towards the downwards escalator on the Downtown line. This time, by chance, the word serendipity, meaning happy chance discovery, I found out the secret. Because passers-by kept scurring across my photographic line of vision, instead of stepping forward as usual, I stepped backwards. The further I stepped back, the more of the mural I could see. Although each individual bit is smaller, and the x shape of the crossing escalators is visible, you can see the scale of the entire mural.

I was delighted with the effect. I hope you like it, too. \the itneresting lesson is that an indoor mural is like an outdoor mural from a photographer's point of view. Better to step back and ensure you have at least one shot of the mural in its entirety.

If people are in the way, never mind. That gives you a sense of scale and height. Every time I look I see something new.

How lucky we are to live in this era.

Useful Websites
Getting to Singapore
singaporeair.com
MRT map
Wikipedia information on the Newton station and artists
Murals of Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murals_in_Singapore
Murals by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murals_by_country

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I can give a talk to any business or college in Singapore or worldwide about the artiwork on the MRT train stations, the statues in the streets, and murals worldwide.

Where to See Art on the Underground railway stations

One of my favourite stations in Singapore is Newton. Scattered around the walls are tiny spaceship like vehicles carrying serious, stoical, lugubrious characters.

A magnificent mural by the escalators flashes pas almost too fast for you to appreciate it. I took a photo so I could look at it at leisure later.

If the small drawings around the corridors are like proverbs or poems, this mural is like a novel or a saga or a trilogy.

I see something new every trip.

Author
Angela Lansbury, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

New Wallpaper?: Start Again or Paper Over The Cracks and Preserve History?

In my previous post I talked about laying a driveway and laying a carpet. Now I shall discuss wallpaper and lino for bathrooms and kitchens.

Wallpaper
I had a quotation for putting up wallpaper. After starting, the workers decided they had to strip off the underlying wallpaper, and the underlayer, and re-lay lining paper. More time and expense.

They claimed that if they put the new wallpaper on top, the old wallpaper would come away from the wall. They showed me the seams.

I said: "I don't have the time nor money for a longer job. Stick down any loose corners with wall paper glue."

Since the worker was expected at another job shortly, he agreed. It worked out just fine.

History of Wallpaper
At the same time I read a newspaper account of an old home where the owners discovered as many as seventeen layers of wallpaper from different eras. They were able to restore a home to the Victorian era, using the old wall paper or by copying the design.

Preserving Walls
Another building, a church or chapel, was renovated. Under the later wallpaper and cladding, they were able to reveal a priceless medieval painting.

To my mind, a building has its history, which it is important to preserve.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please save links to your favourite posts.

How painters perch on outside walls of skyscrapers

One of the jobs not on my wishlist!

From afar I saw one of the painters. We walked along and I saw two more. They were working pretty fast. I preferred the white to the cream colour.

What can I say in favour of the building? A solid building, with a clean colour and restful curves. 

Is there anything detractors could say could be improved? Maybe add some windows and fire escapes.

I would also like to add warm colours and contrasting colours, maybe a mural. that would provide more interesting work for the painters.

We walked along discussing the Forth bridge in Edinburgh.It is often said that the bridge is so big that be the time the painters have reached the end - it's time to start  repainting the beginning again.

Three Painters Suspended, Painting the outside of a building on Circular Road, Singapore.

Photo by Angela Lansbury.Copyright

See Marina Bay South MRT station's Tiled 'Tapestry'

In many of Singapore's MRT stations I wish for more decoration featuring the local area. Here at Marina Bay South is my dream come true. A long 'tapestry' of tiles shows features of Marina Bay South including fish.

On the far right is a white pier. Walk along the mural and check on the individual tiles and you will be rewarded by lots of amusing pictures. Funny faces.  

It was created to celebrate the 50 year celebration of Singapore, and it's huge.

Two rows up is a palm tree tile. Above that five fish, and sun over the water with more fish. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. 

On the far left is an explanation of who the artist is and how the work was created, each tile of raw clay imprinted by Singaporean citizens, and then fired by the artist. 

The artist, born in Romania and studied in the capital, Bucharest, later lived in Belgrade in what was then Yugoslavia, is now a Singapore Citizen.

Mural 'tapestry' of tiles, featuring HDB. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

One resident has chosen to feature MY HDB, Housing Development Board state housing in which the majority of Singaporeans live.

Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. 

All Weather Activities At The Horniman Museum in London, England

Problem
What to do on your own or with family and friends?

Answer
Plenty to do at the Horniman Museum. If you are on a budget, taken your own picnic. They have a picnic building. You can see a view over London.

The free animal area closes about 4 pm, just after the animals are fed. So if you want to see them, make sure you go early.

If it gets cloudy or rainy, or you want some shade, the main building has a free main collection. Enough stuffed animals to keep your fascinated for hours. The shop has lots to interest children and the creative types. Toys that make a noise, such as those based on musical isntruments from around the world.

If you are not paying, just walking around the park, it doesn't matter if you arrive late or leave early. Lots to be said for it.

The building itself is interesting, with a huge mural on the front (actually the side, as you get off the bus. The entrance is around the corner). Sundials are around the outside and you can follow the sundial trail.

Another feature is the outdoor musical instrument are, things you can bang on. Like a xylophone set upright against a fence. What's not to like!

For a description of the indoor musical instruments gallery, see my other posts about the Horniman.

Useful Information and Websites
visitlondon.com
visitbritain.org
Horniman Museum and Gardens
100 London
SE23 3PQ
Tel:020 8699 1872
horniman.ac.uk
tfl.gov.uk
rome2rio.com
citymapper.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photogrpaher, author and speaker. I have more posts on the Horniman Museum and nearby Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Mural on Sixth Avenue Station

I love this mural on Sixth Avenue station concourse on the Downtown line in Singapore. The mural is very Chinese with its green dancing dragon and pleasing pyramid roof pagoda.

The station is strangely named. Above is Fourth Avenue. It is not the sixth station on the downtown line but DT7 (down town 7). Nonetheless, useful station, and jolly mural.

Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Characters to notice on the Mural of cartoon characters at Bishan MRT Singapure

This mural is such fun. I love the lively colours. Busy is happy. People are a source of endless fascination, their faces and expressions, their bodies and gestures. Most of the characters are smiling. That's what I like. Smiling faces.

Lots to look at. A cat. A bridge. An umbrella.

Mural on the MRT. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I love travelling on the MRT trains. So fast.

Travel Tips

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

australia.com

visitbritain.com

visitbritain.shop.com

visitbritain.org

visittheusa.co.uk

visitsingapore.com

Singapore Airlines: 

singaporeair.com

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have other posts on the Sheraton Hotel, the Botanical Gardens and more. Please share links to your favourite posts.

See the Mural of tree and birds, Botanical Gardens, Singapore station

Singapore's Botanical Gardens is the MRT underground railway station under the main entrance to the Botanical Gardens. If you are a tourist, on a fine day in good weather get off the train here and go up to the Botanical Gardens which is free. 

Many local residents rush to work or meetings, busy talking to friends, mostly on smart phones. As a result it is easy to miss the enhancements to the huge station complex. However, if you pass this way and have a moment, enjoy this mural of a tree which is home to several birds. You find this mural ahead of you as you walk towards the Downtown line descending escalator. 

If you are going in the other direction coming up the escalator from the Downtown line, the mural is on your right.

Useful websites

https://www.transitlink.com.sg/images/eguide/mrt_sys_map

visitsingapore.com