We had our first stop over in Singapore in 1990. The Raffles Hotel was closed at the time for renovations. We had been planning to have a drink there. So we just had to postpone it. In November 1994 we actually made it inside the hotel for a drink. And we managed to take some pictures of the occasion.

On every table was a large bowl with unpeeled fresh peanuts. Raffles Hotel patrons would have known that with the highly priced drinks would come as many peanuts as anyone would like. Of course we helped ourselves to some peanuts and discarded the peels on our table. After a while a waiter approached our table and wiped with his hands the peels off the table onto the floor. He indicated that we should do the same. We realized then that this sort of thing was the custom at this particular hotel. After a bit of musing we came to the conclusion, all right, why not?

In my previous blog I forgot to mention that in November 1994 we also had a stop over in London before we went on to Berlin. I am going to write about our visit to England in my next post.