Summit Ridge Hotel Tagaytay

... for everyone! As a good start, we decide to eat breakfast at the bag of Beans ...

... of the most popular tourist towns in the Philippines, it has a long way to go compared to other places we visited.  While there was a nice restaurant with most courteous service in our hotel, there were no other decent options to have dinner.  One evening we had dinner at a local eatery but the "pork steak" that Vicky ordered turned out to be off-tasting chunks of fried backfat. Appararenly it's known as "double dead" meat around here and ...

Day three without much to do in the evenings except watch TV. I didn't see any books in the Power Bookstore that I was interested in so instead of just purchasing something for the halibut, I just decided that I would go back another time to see if a change in mood will allow me to find something interesting. Heck, even the latest edition of Cosmo didn't do ...

... bit that happened today was the hard rain that occured around noon. The streets were pretty flooded out and of course the traffic was almost to a stand still. The weather has been quite soupy to say the least and based on past travels here, I've been drinking a lot of water which in turn is a good thing I guess as my system is pretty well flushed to the point that it is clear going in and clear coming out. Except the slight shade ...

... are crosswalks, but like driving, some things are rarely observed. For example, on the way to the office yesterday via taxi, the driver and I had a good laugh at the expense of a "Student Driver" vehicle that was for all intensive purposes adhering to the rules of the road. There is an intersection where there is a stop sign and as any "normal" driver would do, one would stop and then proceed across the intersection. Here though, I've ...

... I´ve found that recorded their journey to the mouth of the volcano did it the "right way" the first time... I´ll elaborate more later. 2 - the "actual volcano" in the case of the Taal Volcano is hidden in two ways. A - the little rock shape "volcano", that I and so many others (even Google shows pictures of the wrong thing) have posted on their websites, is in fact just a "vent" for the bigger volcano. The "mouth" of the volcano is ...

I'm fighing off a cold or something that I've had after my second day here in Manila. The office air conditioning makes the office a bit on the dry side and I've even had to bring in my windbreaker to wear because I have periods of getting cold over the course of the day. Yesterday after lunch I was pretty exhausted and the dry throat coupled with congestion was not helping one bit so after hopping into a taxi with Derek and Chris I just went back to ...

... the lake, where when the mist had cleared you could see the surroundings of Taal Volcano. So we checked in there and went up to terrace for a quick drink. We took a walk into to town a bit, and came across a restaurant called Bag of Beans, which had been previously run by an English guy, who had got a microwave form his mum or something, and had used the recipies to make pies and had then opened this restaurant. So we went in there and the Garden ...

We were invited to return to Tagatay for a different perspective. Sir Boisy, the owner of the structural engineering firm we are working with has a house on the side of the mountain that is near Taal Lake and a golf course called the Highlands. Home cooking, good company, and new friends awaited us, a very interesting Saturday on the mountain.

... Area. Environmental protection measures are required by the Philippine Govt in order for the resort to operate in the area. Sounds like some of the most unspoled reefs in the Philippines exist in Palawan. This looks to be quite a promising travel choice. Located on a remote island, there is not much to do except SCUBA, lie around the beach, watch the sunset then complete the evening watching the stars. No ...