Mar
15
2007
Ok, so the capsule has a few flaws, one being that if you roll over and hit the wall, you might wake yourself up; and I’m a roller. Clearly I wasn’t drunk enough! Sleep aside, it was cool… Seb and I decide to check out Electric City and see if it lives up to its […]
Mar
14
2007
We spend a day sorting hotels and flights (never ending when your traveling!), and eventually bid Mabel goodbye at Manila airport (where’s she’s also flying out to Cebu), and step out of the 32C sun of the Philippines and into the 7C wind of downtown Tokyo. Neither Seb nor I have cold weather gear (Seb’s […]
Mar
12
2007
A Japanese visa for Mabel is going to take over a week, if she can get one at all. Seb needs to be back in the UK in two weeks, and so he suggests putting Mabel up in a great hotel in Cebu (near her friends) and going to Tokyo anyway. Mabel isn’t having any […]
Mar
11
2007
We’ve made a few good plans on the internet, and we pack up early to head to Cebu. The whole family’s bailing out of the house, so we’re blessed with the “bigger boat” that promises to make the journey somewhat drier than we’ve been used to! The boat drops us at Maya, and we bid […]
Mar
10
2007
We’ve planned another dive, and we wake early to catch the boat. Seb really tied one on the previous night, and he’s in really bad shape. He puts on a good British stiff upper lip (or stomach in this case) and we have an excellent dive exploring an artificial reef created by dumping some old […]
Mar
09
2007
I wake and the family’s madly cooking for Mabel’s birthday party. The spread looks crazy, there are close to 100 little styrofoam boxes being filled with an assortment of snack bites in one corner, a massive pile of diced, spiced pork being rolled in rice tortillas into tiny logs and fried in another, and a […]
Mar
08
2007
Seb and I are thrilled to be back in paradise! We decide to take full advantage of it, and make plans for another trip out to our second rock! The only boat we can get, though, is a TINY fishing boat. We try to get three in it and it promptly swamps, so Seb and […]
Mar
07
2007
By morning we’ve agreed not to repeat the bus trip of death, and hunt down a nice AC bus. Seb gets into another shouting match with Mabel over the sudden appearance of a couple of Mabel’s friends who are joining us in Malapascua. Seb makes a point that these are more mouths to feed, and […]
Mar
06
2007
Whoops! Time’s been flying by on Malapascua, and Mabel points out that our visas have almost expired! We’re just about out of cash again anyway, and since we’re not sure if we’ll get our visas extended, we pack up everything and prepare for the long road trip to Cebu city. We leave early, and bid […]
Mar
05
2007
The second rock off our beach has been calling to us, and with a new snorkel mask from Cebu, we decide to swim out again and see how the coral compares. We take our time, and finally get out to find a beautiful expanse of hard and soft coral and a huge variety of sea […]