Acl Suites Quezon City

... mieleen..<br><br>Ensi vaikutelmat Manilasta olivat siis melko erikoiset. Ja siis onko talla kaupungilla keskustaa ollenkaan? Loydettiin itsemme Quezon Citysta joka on Metro-Manilan jonkinlainen nouseva viihdekeskus. Kadut taynna McDonaldseja ynm. monikansallisia mutta missa ovat kaikki muut valkonaamat? Ensimmaiseen kolmeen paivaan ei tormatty ainoaankaan turistiin, neljantena yhteen jenkkiin (porttolan alakerrassa). Pian rupesi selviamaan etta Quezonista on yli ...

... had a family of mice in it, this hasnt helped it at all as some things are coroded so the motherboard despite being cleaned is very sensitive to movement so sometimes mysteriosly hangs up, still it's worked for a few days now so I am slowly winning!!<br><br>Hope all is well in the uk, I hear the weather is not as good as they predicted, god only knows why this has switched to italics, maybe the idiot gates knows....................ttfn<br><br><b r><br>

... half hour).....well I think she just didn't want to be the cooking slave, so now we share hehehe ohhh something here that is very good is dried fish, they are small and sun dried, you just flash fry them and then dip them in vinegar, very very yummy.<br><br>We visited Flora's family twice now, nice garden, this weekend we are all going swimming some place together. Transport is so cheap compared to the uk, 30 minutes aircon bus ride through the city is ...

... you nice discounts on flat screen TVs if you buy them with cash. That's a lot of cash to be carrying around while your shopping around for TVs. We're so used to just whipping out the Visa or Mastercard and going on our merry way with our new purchases in hand. Or logging into Expedia.com or a resort website and just making the reservation online. We just need to get in the groove of how to get things done here. Anyway, back to the concert ...

... in my money belt to last me for a while. In the meantime I am stuck in Manila. I am planning to make the best of it and one of my plans is to try to learn (a little) Mandarin Chinese... I will keep you posted as there are new developments - or when I have definite new travel plans. Everybody take care! Michel. By the way, since early June my cellphone didn't work anymore, but it works again in the Philippines, in case anyone feels the urge to text message me... :-)

... to supervisor so I'd be getting a new driver. Romel reported the next day. But neither of these guys is as interesting as James. They don't run around the car to open my door or chatter away in broken English I was finally able to understand or teach me the meaning of Tagalog words on billboards. But then, these guys seem to come and go pretty quickly so who know what we'll get next.

... and clothes, and shoes, and pretty, shiny things. *sigh* But all in all, Manila was really just a big, dirty, crowded, slightly scary city which we didn't really rate (apart from the shopping), so we booked out tickets to Puerto Galera once we'd shopped ourselves out. In fact, we were so unimpressed with the whole thing we didn't even take any photos. Naughty us.

... usually take train number T98 from Guangzhoudong Railway station which leaves at 18:06 and arrives at 15:41 in Beijing the next day for 253yuan/rmb (21hours). There are two railway stations in Guangzhou, 1) Guangzhou Railway Station, 2) Guangzhou dong(east) Railway Station which is more convenient and lesser people or passengers and bigger lounge for passengers. You can transfer from one station to another by taking subway train which safer and ...

... hours and a half to Zhuhai City or they call it Gongbei (boarder of Macau-China). Macau is a Special Administrative Region of China but you need to have passed through the immigration procedures. You can take also by boat/ferry going to Macau from Hong Kong and you pay approximately 200 yuan/rmb and lesser travel since you will have two hours and a half (approx). The name of the Pier is Shenzhen Shenkou Pier. This is also another kind of ...

... enticing. So from mall to mall, train station to jeep stop, I made my path through the labyrinth of Manila. It is a city smaller than Seoul, but infinitely more convoluted. No metro map to make sense of the jumble of streets. Just a million jeeps roaring and blaring, stopping and starting. Eventually I came to Makati, once an airport, and now the centre of business in Manila and the Phils. Banks and embassies on every corner, and even more shotguns than ...