Patio Pacific Resort Boracay

... to see if there's more pubs along the way than our usual haunt! Just sat down and watched the sunset here for the first time too. We've always seemed to miss it so far. Very beautiful. Off to Oz on the 18th. Feels so weird to be leaving Asia!!! Still have quite a few more lazy days to go here though. Will update with more news when it happens.<br><br>Love to all!!<br><br>Adele and Lucy<br>

... chat. The owner is married to an English woman so he was all stories about how they met. <br><br>Out in the beach bars later, we met two more people who we had been chatting to at the Halloween party in Hong Kong! Small world or what. <br><br>Covered in Mosquito bites, have counted nearly forty on my legs alone. Not so pretty!<br><br>Miss you all,<br>Stories?<br>Lucy and Adele xxxx

... where we were staying. We showed her and she said that was her niece's place. We took a quick tricycle ride (tuk-tuks here) to the hostel and checked in. She introduced herself as Betty (bless!) and we've already seen her once again. Might become a bit of a fixture since we're here a while!<br><br>Our room is really big with big beds each. Such a nice change form Hong Kong. Full of mozzies though!! We went out for a walk on the ...

... were rather expensive for Filipino standards, although beer and alcoholic drinks were still very cheap especially during happy hour specials (which lasted from 14:00 to 20:00 at most places). San Miguel beer and San Miguel Light went for as low as 30 pesos during these happy hour specials. Lisa and I spent 7 nights on Boracay altogether and most days were very similar in nature. The first three days that we spent on the island were accompanied by a ...

... figure out how to check us in for our old ones, and the guys manager was 15 feet behind him and he wouldn't go get him. *sigh* Tuesday- Theres no Place like Home We fly home and get a taxi back to CUHK. On the way back we are going 100 km/hr on the highway and Joel whos sitting next to me says, pull over, pull over....and we try to communicate to the driver to pull over but he dosn't understand in time. Remember that egg sandwich? Joel, without a seatbelt on ...

... coming from the lipstick camera, but not too bad as long as it does not get worse. Hope it's not a problem with the video cable. The Chartplotter is a Garmin GPSmap 430s. (Craig W. asked.) Hot and sweating under a full fan as I write this. The screen is swimming again tonight. Last night I had fried calamari, french toast for breakfast, dinner tonight was swordfish steak, two prawns (complete with their heads) and two ...

... tion one on * none to sunny but still enjoy*ble morning, we found th*t during low tide, you c*n just w*lk up to Willy's Rock (LOL). Scouting *round for dinner, we settled for *n e*t-*ll you c*n buffet *t Victory Diver's ne*r our resort. I'm not sure if its bec*use us city folks *re too used to MSGs, but the food w*s just bl*nd for our t*ste. Or it could *lso be th*t we shouldn't expect too much for the buffet's price ...

... dive today, but we'll see how I'm feeling later in my stay. While at the coffee shop, these extremely flamboyant and openly homosexual guys (Eli from Princeton, NJ and Andreas from Sweden) sat with us because we had met them the day before. They met while studying in Beijing as year ago and have been madly in love ever since. Johnathan joined us a bit later and they had an interesting conversation on Asian issues. They even ...

... is a bit busier that I had hoped it would be, but nice and laidback just the same. Seems like I have arrived during the Filipino travel season as it is summer break in the school system. There are many tourists from all over the world here, but I would have to say principally Filipino families. There is a wonderful sand pedestrian walkway that runs the entire length of the beach that is lined with tourist related services ...

... the morning dive that I opted to just spend time on the beach and go jewelry shopping. Pearls are a BIG item that are very inexpensive! I was buying necklaces, bracelets and earrings for US$10! They are real, but they're just not perfectly round and polished. Thursday evening we had a group dinner on the beach and then went out to the same dance clubs. On Friday, we had a HOT morning hike to the other side of the island. It's amazing to see what a change it was from the ...