Park View Hotel Tagaytay

... but following the track is easy anyways. It was comforting to know that they were just as tired as us by the time we got to the top. It took us about an hour to get to the top in the soaring heat...and this was still well before noon. By the time I got to the top, I was totally soaked in sweat. I looked like a bucket of water had been dumped on me. There is no shelter on the way up to the top. There were some stalls up top ...

... That's our informative tour guide educating us about Paradizoo For those who are ...

... to the tattoo parlour for my 1pm appointment and after 8 hours of agonising pain I scurried back to the hotel, holed myself up there with supplies and slept like there was no tomorrow. August 14th Another flight to catch and back to Manila for me. The flight landed at 3pm and by 4pm I was on the bus to Tagaytay, the summer retreat for Manila folk. Arrived at night and walked about a bit looking for a reasonably priced place to stay (not many around ...

It is written in the ancient Scrolls of Skellis that to travel west you first must go east... August 01, 2008 16:31 Kansas City, MO - USA Shipment picked up August 01, 2008 22:19 Kansas City, MO - USA Arrived at DHL facility in Kansas City - USA August 01, 2008 22:20 Kansas City, MO - USA Departed from DHL facility in Kansas City - USA August 02, 2008 06:31 ...

... I remembered the scene in "Forrest Gump" where he was describing the rain and this was pretty much "sideways rain" that was coming down or being blown down. I did manage to cross the remainder of the road though as there was a slight break in the rain and wind that allowed me the briefest of moments to look out from behind the umbrella to see that the traffic was mostly clear. After that, the rest of the journey was pretty much looking at my feet ...

Derek and I headed out to a birthday party at the home of a gentleman we are working for. It was about an hour or so of a taxi ride north of where we are staying due to the traffic. If there was no traffic, it probably would have been a 15 minute ride or maybe a little bit longer. The house is in a gated community or a self contained community so even our taxi driver was turned around a little bit. It was still pretty ...

Ah yes, Good Friday, as I look out of the window of unit 1006 at the Asian Residences I don't see too much traffic out there. The buses that are normally gone are all parked along the parkway and it would seem that it is a ghost town out there. There are the occasional cars and jeepney's but for the most part, there's not a lot of anything happening out there. I'm getting ready to check out of the room and then head on over to Vivant where ...

... was just time. I hadn't previously thought too much into it, and as I always presumed, it would just take the little voice in my head to whisper, "its time to let it go." So that morning I looked into the mirror, heard the voice, and took it off. Surprisingly, it was not strange to look at myself in the mirror and see a "pure" face for the first time in 6 years. It felt right, and I was happy. At that moment I ...

... Tagaytay for while and his Aunt and Uncle and him had all come out to visit. We had a good laugh and got chatting with his aunt and uncle too, who were from Kent, then after an hour or so we said our goodbyes and headed off back down to the bottom, at least we got our monies worth as far as our guide was concerned as we had kept him up there for over on hour! So boat ride back, we had just managed to dry off, only to get soaked again on the way back ...

Ok, so I decided I'd post it all... yes even the bad parts of the trip and even when I'm a complete dundero-head! So first I have to explain that at my house in KC we have a "glass top stove". This means that we turn the burners on and set the pots ON TOP OF THE GLASS to cook. If you refer back to previous shots of the flat you might have noticed that I "had" what ...