Vivere Suites Manila

... La primera vez que fui a usar el bano sali gritando. Nada mas cerrar la puerta, a punto de bajarme los pantalones, vi una aranya del tamanyo de mi mano mirandome desde el techo. Como los dos banyos estaban comunicados, no me atrevi a usar el otro, y tuve que avisar a recepcion para que vinieran a remover al animalito. Al cabo de unos 20 minutos vino una mujer con una escoba.

Para mas inri, las sabanas y la funda de mi cama ...

... short time on how I don't like to use the word … blog. That made me feel dirty but I had to do it otherwise any new readers might wonder which rude word beginning with a 'b' I was having such a problem with. Now you know. To make my feelings clear; every time I hear the word b*** the connotations I get are of a whiny, self-interested idiot blathering on about what they had for breakfast. I've even been travelling with some people - and really nice they were too - and it came ...

... nice enough, or crazy enough, to loan me a horse to get to school when I had no other options and lived 8 miles into the country. In case you think I'm speaking of times gone by, I'm talking about 2004! It was a somber place and sadly I don't think too many people make the trip....it was the middle of nowhere and I had to flag down a bus from the highway to get back to town.
Tomorrow I head North on my own again. Finally gonna get to a beach! Stay tuned for more!

... asking if they serve anything vegetarian. One of their more exotic dishes is Balut or ‘eggs with legs’. It is a duck egg with a nearly developed duck embryo inside. It includes feather, beak and bones!! It is common to find and eaten extensively throughout the country. Not for the faint hearted, or vegetarians.

... by US forces after WW II were about the only vehicles sturdy and rugged enough to navigate the debris choked roads of Manila after prolonged bombing and heavy fighting between Japanese and US forces had all but levelled the place. It rains a lot in the Philippines during rainy season so an essential modification was the addition of a roof to keep out the elements. Following that they were painted in gloriously gaudy, eye catching colours and covered in chrome to make them ...

... this going to cost they call my name and hand me a small cup which looked like it had been used thousands of times before and directed me to the bathroom. As I enter, hoping I don't catch anything by touching the specimum cup much less anything in the bathroom they yell out "Don't shut the door"; Hell at least I don't have to worry about touching anything there. I finish my business, hand over the cup and pay my 300 pesos (not to bad). Our ...

... about their business as if nothing happened; are we sure we felt that? Then a couple of minutes later it happened again, softer this time but a distinct rolling motion. This was weird, not use to have a building move about like that, and yet no one seemed to notice (more on that later). Why aren't people acting like those scenes from those 70's disaster movies? Jumping from windows and running down the ...

... scream of lights and colors exploding one by one - like a musical overture reaching full crescendo and a woman squirming in climax, it reached a thunderous apex and smoothly dipped down in a purgic denouement. I remember myself feeling so alive. The lights must have energized every cell of my body. I recall triumphs and victories and the sweet taste of past successes. It was a moment to forget ancient aches and simply celebrate ...

... again and keep going. The honking is much bigger than me though. Every single driver is horn happy. It's something to do with the neverending waves of vehicles cutting in and out of each others way in some crazy dance. I don't believe that during the whole walk there was a moment of more than 2 seconds without a horn going off around me. The locals seem to have adapted to this by developing a total immunity to the horns. Not a single ...

... du maa ta baat for aa komme dit. Feilen med plassen var at det var alt for mange Dansker og norske der. Men vi hadde 3 avslappende dager der for vi skulle videre paa baattur. Mindoro er ogsaa en oy hvor det fremdeles lever stammefolk helt isolert. Det er visst 5 stammer som deler teritorier mellom seg. Saa var vi klar for en ukes baattur om bord paa "Hans Cristian Andersen", en danskbygd baat med plass til 42 passasjerer. Da ...