Kampung Glam Singapore

Getting to Singapore from JB can take quite long - anything between 2 to 3 hours. Luckily there are enough toilets on the way.
To get to Singapore by bus is a good idea as one does not have to worry about finding parking and then trying to find your car. Step one is to get to JB Sentral or City Square. From there you walk through the Malay customs. Once through you find the CW2 bus, pay RM2.50 and KEEP the ticket. The bus takes one across the causeway to the Singapore customs. There you present their white card, go through and catch the CW2 bus with the same ticket as earlier. Now it's off to Queenstreet.
Always go to Singapore with a map and you will most definitely not get lost. If you get a little lost, there is always someone asking you if they can help you when you start thinking you need help.
Near Queenstreet is the ITmall or Sim Lim. This is for the computer geeks. THEN near Queenstreet is Kampung Glam - a must go to place. There are the most interesting little shops all in an area where cars do not drive. This is behind the big beautiful mosque. Among these little shops is a Peranakan shop called Little Shophouse. They sell the most beautiful beaded Peranakan shoes. Very expensive, but one has to take into considereation that hundreds of tiny beads are sewn on one by one by hand and also it takes up to 100 hours to do the beading. Before this can happen a correct size design must be planned and then the design for one shoe must be mirror imaged as well. Then the shoe must still be assembled by a cobbler.
Close by are of course numerous restorans with the most delicious foods. If you find you need a bathroom - there is a shopping centre opposite the one Indian restoran where there are plenty clean toilets. This Indian restoran or Zam Zam sells freshly made murtabak for $5 - 8 depending on the size and very nice ice Milo.
To go back to JB, one just retraces one's steps. Go to the Queenstreet busterminal, pay $2.50 (figure is the same as in JB, the money type is not the same and the value neither!), take the CW3 bus to the Singapore customs, go through, take the bus again with the same ticket, go through Malay customs and you're back in JB Sentral. So easy. It can take 2 hours per direction or even 3 hours. Just don't be in a hurry or impatient.