I don't always get a double-decker view when I travel along this stretch of road, so when I do... :)
Geylang is no less fascinating a place for most of us, and I could go on a little about it, but that will keep for another time- the bus route today led me down the main road heading towards the city, and because there are so many little lanes that stretch out on either side, the easiest gauge would be to say that I started from Geylang Lorong 42, then passed by Lorong 40, 38, 36 and so on...
There're a couple of interesting landmarks along the way, despite the fact that it seems to be shophouse after shophouse after shophouse, and although one gets easily lost when it comes to spotting them, one major mark is the No Signboard Seafood place that indicates the perpendicular road heading to Guillemard Road one way, and Aljunied the other.
There's another one- this bungalow sort of house that is today the Lai Meng Hotel at the junction of Lorong 24- and which is distinctive for the reason that it feels like a rustic beach-side sort of bungalow as per the likes in Bedok and East Coast Road, and which gradually, we don't find very much anymore.
The route took me down the entire stretch of Geylang Road, past what used to be Gay World Amusement Park a long, long, long time ago but is now just a very big field, then the Kallang Airport Gateway entrance which is now a sadly neglected sight of two faded, peeling white pillars that house not even a grille gate in between, over the Merdeka Bridge that grants you a sight of the Kallang River and the Singapore Flyer ahead, past the vast plot of land that once stood the BP Gasworks, and finally, the little, pretty historic lane where, thankfully, the Hindu Temple still stands.
Geylang is no less fascinating a place for most of us, and I could go on a little about it, but that will keep for another time- the bus route today led me down the main road heading towards the city, and because there are so many little lanes that stretch out on either side, the easiest gauge would be to say that I started from Geylang Lorong 42, then passed by Lorong 40, 38, 36 and so on...
There're a couple of interesting landmarks along the way, despite the fact that it seems to be shophouse after shophouse after shophouse, and although one gets easily lost when it comes to spotting them, one major mark is the No Signboard Seafood place that indicates the perpendicular road heading to Guillemard Road one way, and Aljunied the other.
There's another one- this bungalow sort of house that is today the Lai Meng Hotel at the junction of Lorong 24- and which is distinctive for the reason that it feels like a rustic beach-side sort of bungalow as per the likes in Bedok and East Coast Road, and which gradually, we don't find very much anymore.
The route took me down the entire stretch of Geylang Road, past what used to be Gay World Amusement Park a long, long, long time ago but is now just a very big field, then the Kallang Airport Gateway entrance which is now a sadly neglected sight of two faded, peeling white pillars that house not even a grille gate in between, over the Merdeka Bridge that grants you a sight of the Kallang River and the Singapore Flyer ahead, past the vast plot of land that once stood the BP Gasworks, and finally, the little, pretty historic lane where, thankfully, the Hindu Temple still stands.
