After the late night of Chinese New Year, we had a solid lie in until around 11am. Then we had some little rolls and peanut butter that counts as a “continental breakfast” here in the Philippines. Then we went out onto the balcony and organised the main structure for the time we shall share in the Philippines and bought some flight tickets.

Our plan:

1. Fly very early to Bohol
2. Stay in Pangloa for a few days, exploring the stuff that goes on there and around there and Bohol.
3. Take the ferry, coach and second ferry to Malapasqua in one day
4. Do our open water scuba diving qualification for 4-5 days
5. Fly back to Manila from Cebu
6. Take the night coach to northern Lazon
7. Do two days of tracking round the rice fields
8. Taking a night coach back to Manila
9. Fly our separate ways

We bought flight tickets and the like and then went off for a nice little meal at a recommended local Spanish place to kick off our travels, it was so lovely: we had shrimp, clamps, muscles and frogs legs, they were all delicious! It was the first time I’ve ever had clams or frogs legs, both I would definitely pick to have again. There was also a little mariachi band that played as we ate, it was a most enjoyable and relaxing meal.

We then went back to our dorms for an early night before the early flight tomorrow.