Wednesday 17th The Last Day L
Simple programme today – lunch at local Indian restaurant –
tried uttapam. Uttapam is a thick pancake,
with toppings
cooked right into the batter. Uttapam is sometimes characterized as an Indian pizza. Thanks Wikipedia. Retraced
yesterday’s steps to Sentosa to use free tickets for the Maritime Experiential
Museum. A lot of information about Chinese trade and piracy in the 1400-1800
era. Whoopee. Some of it was kinda interesting. The best part was when I got to
nap on beanbags for an hour while J went back to suck up some more info about mediaeval
maritime marketing.
Zeng He's treasure ship. He was in charge of over 200 ships and 27,000 crew. They had many farm animals with them and grew crops on the support ships.
He traded with civilisations in the Western Oceans and returned exotic items to China.
Did you know ? …. The Chinese invented the compass. … and were the first civilization to build ships
with bulkheads (based on the strength of how a bamboo plant is
constructed). Interesting huh!
It rained non-trivially while
we were inside and we strolled back around the bay to Vivo, where we
rediscovered some sushi and chicken eateries. Home.
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