It’s quite hard to get stuff organised here as it’s mind meltingly hot, all you want to do is sleep, Internet is intermittent and most stuff in the Philippines isn’t advertised online, it’s mainly all, be in the know, book by email or phone (email in my case as my phone line doesn’t seem to want to work and the error message that I get when I try and make a call isn’t in English and the numbers that it mentions to call are also blocked… Smooth.

I have managed to book flights to El Nido on the island of Palawan, and a trip to the volcano island of Taal (which is a volcano island that has exploded inside the lake that is a crater of a much larger volcano that exploded ages ago).

I also in the two days, I made good use of the pool and had lots of fun with the other residence. Also took the took took-esk things that are prevalent around here simply called tricycles, a 5 min journey on one of those is about 15p, although they’re definitely made for people of max height 5.5′.