Making a start

Excelsior Hotel Coleman St Singapore.

It is 6.40am and day is breaking over Singapore. I can see the outlines of the tall buildings on the other side of the park area even although the windows here on the 13th floor of the excelsior tower are on the grubby side.

Two nights and one full day in Singapore. The day adventure was, for me, split into two halves.
Morning 7am saw me out and about. Leaving the Excelsior Hotel I turned right along Coleman St. to the next junction and went into the grounds of the anglican cathedral ( St Andrew's) a very white building with a tall slender spire that I could see from my bedroom window. Most of the square side windows of the cathedral were glassless and their wooden shutters were open giving a very tropical feel to it. Although already the air felt warm and sticky outside, inside here was cool and pleasant at this time of the morning and I was impressed to see several people there quietly reading and praying; both men and women. From their dress and their bags they seemed to be city workers taking time for quiet prayer on their way to their offices etc.

Behind the altar the sun was beginning to light up the long narrow stained glass windows set in the blue walls of the sanctuary.

After spending a short quiet time here myself I came back out and continued on my way to find the Raffles Hotel.