After last nights performance, I was craving to play a keyboard myself. I first tried a keyboard shop / music school, but they neither had any fancy synthesizer pianos nor rented out practice rooms. The second shop, a used piano store, was closed for the day. Losing enthusiasm, I spent the next few hours in a nearby cafe before taking a bus downtown to explore southwest of the National Library. There's a number of significant buildings in the area, including St. Andrew's Cathedral, a modest-by-European-standards cathedral in early Gothic style, a theatre and concert hall, the Supreme Court of Singapore, City Hall, the National Gallery. I was mostly content to simply stroll through them.
Eventually I ran into the Singapore River and walked upstream to the Clarke Quay area. Clarke Quay is a very attractive area to stay in if you are a tourist of the more standard variety (i.e. long on money, short on time). The river is lovely, there's a myriad of bars and shops, and it's centrally located near downtown, the major shopping areas, and the beaches of Sentosa island resort.
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| Just southeast of Clarke Quay, looking southwest |
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| Just southeast of Clarke Quay, looking west |
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