Hotel Kimberly Tagaytay

... supposedly dangerously hot and people aren't allowed down. There are various other vents with escaping sulfurous gases inside the crater walls and the water of the lake seems to show slight little signs of activity with ripples and the colour of the water changing ever so slightly from area to area. It was an interesting and beautiful place and we enjoyed the half a day trip. On the way down we took our time and learned that our guide was only a year older than me (23) with a wife ...

... is definitely worth tasting ( Kinda expensive about 350 Php I think, but is worth ...

... we tried some diy mechanics to fix mine and Paddy's bikes. In the end the experts that we are didn't notice the petrol gauge on empty (schoolboy error). I nearly had a serious incident when a local chicken bus ploughing past me on a dirt road got too close to me, covered me in inches of dust (couldn't see a thing) and I nearly flew into the bushes at the side of the road. I cursed the driver and his family and chickens and tried to catch up with him ...

... I am hoping that spending 12 hours on a plane will allow me to get some sleep. If not, I hope the movies are going to be good because I went ahead and checked my book in with my bag. That's okay though, I usually don't read on the airplane much anyway. I guess if I can't get to sleep I can always take a Benedryl to see if that will help me out. On another note, I think I ...

Alas, I have lost my ten pound travelling companion along with the two pound power adapter. The M90 left the office here today to embark on the trip back to the states, three weeks ahead of schedule. So until the replacement arrives, M90 Mk II, I shall be without diversion or that fancy Intarnet communication thing during the evenings after work. At least there is edited movies on HBO, Cinemax & Stars that I can watch to pass the time. Sure there are ...

... a couple of things, I even hooked up one of the monitors that is utilized by the desktop and still there was nothing. At first he thought it was the LCD screen but upon further evaluation it ended up being the video card. I breathed a sigh of relief, it was after all only a video card and after upgrading a few of them on my personal desktops I knew it was something that wasn't too terribly difficult. Riiiiiiiight. Looking online I found ...

Had some lunch at the Chow King so I braved the heat of the day and went for a short walk. Thank goodness there was a breeze as it gave an illusion that it was a little bit cooler. Not much going on out here though, when it is hot I'm not inclined to go out and do anything. Might take in a movie ...

... does one get to the bowl of the Taal Volcano? Well, as I said you get up early, load into a nice and shiny red Ford pickup, and drive south out of the city to the town of Tagaytay. Where you take a road that leads over the edge of the Caldera and down a sharp twisting road to the edge of the larger lake... I think as I have written too much already, that this is where I will direct you to the pictures where I will continue the story...

... a policeman who lived next door and it was his daughter 1st birthday or christening or something, so they had a karaoke machine on the go all day long. We headed out to try and find this bar the liar had said about where they had live bands at weekend, apparently up by the rotunda on silang road, so jumped into a jeepney and off we went. After about an 20 minutes or so, we were still in the jeepney, so I asked the driver about silang road, he was ...

... sun began to set, well you can see the photos. Beautiful doesn't quite speak towards the scene. As the sun hit the water, the sky become like it was on fire, and more beautiful than that was the line of faces going on for hundreds in both directions that smiled and gazed into the kind of beauty that only God can paint with nature. Truly an experience to behold. But wait! That wasn't all. As we left the boardwalk to ...