This is going to be written super quickly as I’ve fallen so far behind, I’m now writing what has happened 5 days ago and need to catch-up and start witting at the end of each day.
So in a nutshell:
Botanic Gardens.
OK, nice open spaces, some impressive orchids.
A ‘Margret Thatcher Orchid’ in the ‘VIP Orchid Garden’. I guess they didn’t have a ‘Milk Snatching, Society Crushing, Hateful Old Hag Garden’.
There was also a ‘Nelson Mandela Orchid’ there. I have no problem with this.
I had been looking forward to a visit to Singapore Zoo. Now I don’t do zoos as a rule. Ever since I watched a polar bear pacing back and forth under the sweltering sun with only a shallow dirty pool of water to paddle in on a school trip to Bristol Zoo. But, this is 2011 and this is hailed as the ‘World’s Best Zoo’. Maybe things have changed I think. Well they have changed, a bit. But they still suck. First we arrived and got shuffled towards ‘The Amazing Animal Show’. One of those mind shrinking displays of over the top fake enthusiasm by a host dressed in jungle gear, continually asking ‘Are we all having a good time?’ And of course the audience get asked this twice because the initial response wasn’t enthusiastic enough. What followed was a parade of animals that just looked a bit embarrassed to be there. So was I and left before the end.
Onto a land train wandering through the park. Now the zoo may ‘have no cages’. But what’s in a name? Do we honestly believe that the tiger can wander off to see the hippos anytime? No. So yes, I didn’t see a barbed wire fence, but the tiger was still behind thick glass, pacing in the same way that polar bear had 25 years ago. I still don’t do zoos.
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