Updates
New walks, new photos and corrected notes, newest first. The same list is in the feed.
2026
- Nov 2026 Kampong Glam & Little India: festival lights over Serangoon Road, up again this month.
- Nov 2026 Plan a walk: notes on the November to January rains, and where to wait out a storm.
- Oct 2026 Old Streets now includes Tiong Bahru's walk-up flats, and the air-raid shelter under one block.
- Oct 2026 Old Streets: the spiral back stairs and the canal path behind Tiong Bahru.
- Sep 2026 Water & Island: added the treetop trail and Jelutong Tower.
- Sep 2026 Kampong Glam & Little India: the Angullia Mosque, and garlands being strung at Tekka.
- Aug 2026 Photos now load smaller copies on phones, and every photo opens full size when tapped.
- Jul 2026 City Evenings: hawker stalls and a street vendor's cart from 1973.
- Jul 2026 Southern Ridges: walked again; HortPark added to the notes as the halfway stop.
- Jun 2026 Plan a walk: a note on smoke haze between June and October.
- May 2026 New walk: Kampong Glam & Little India, from the Sultan Mosque to Serangoon Road.
- May 2026 City Evenings: char siew and roast pork rice, and braised duck noodles.
- Apr 2026 Water & Island: bumboat times and the cash fare from Changi Point checked again.
- Mar 2026 Gardens: the Cloud Forest waterfall and the pitcher-plant sculptures at Gardens by the Bay.
- Feb 2026 Southern Ridges: the Kent Ridge canopy walk, and the ribs of Henderson Waves up close.
- Feb 2026 Old Streets: the Joo Chiat loop now starts at Eunos MRT, which is closer.
- Jan 2026 City Evenings: economic rice, and how to order it.
2025
- Dec 2025 Water & Island: Pulau Ubin and the Chek Jawa boardwalk, with notes on hiring a bicycle.
- Nov 2025 Plan a walk: contactless bank cards now work at every train gate.
- Nov 2025 New walk: Southern Ridges, from Mount Faber over Henderson Waves to Kent Ridge.
- Oct 2025 Gardens: Tanglin Gate, where the walk begins.
- Oct 2025 Water & Island: an old photograph of the town reservoirs.
- Sep 2025 Water & Island: the path along the water's edge and the shade trees at the MacRitchie entrance.
- Sep 2025 Every photo now shows the year it was taken, and links to its licence and original page.
- Aug 2025 City Evenings: Marina Bay at night, and the bay from the Singapore Flyer.
- Jul 2025 New walk: City Evenings, Marina Bay at dusk and dinner at Lau Pa Sat.
- Jun 2025 Gardens: ixora buds before they open, and a waterhen by the stream.
- May 2025 Old Streets: prints of Tanjong Pagar and Kling Street from around 1900.
- Apr 2025 Gardens: the rainforest boardwalk.
- Mar 2025 New walk: Water & Island, starting with the MacRitchie boardwalks.
- Feb 2025 Plan a walk: what to bring, and how to photograph shophouses politely.
- Jan 2025 Old Streets: Koon Seng Road's painted terraces.
- Jan 2025 Gardens: banana plants along a bend in the heliconia walk.
2024
- Dec 2024 New page: Plan a walk, with notes on heat, rain, water and trains.
- Oct 2024 Old Streets: a rice dumpling shop and a blue corner house on Joo Chiat Road.
- Sep 2024 Gardens: flower beds near the main path, and figs growing straight from a trunk.
- Aug 2024 Gardens: a full ixora bush, and a red bloom photographed in 1971.
- Jun 2024 Old Streets: more of Joo Chiat's terraces, four houses in four colours.
- May 2024 Gardens: café tables by the lake, from 1971.
- Apr 2024 Ixora Frames goes online with two walks, Gardens and Old Streets.