Waiting for our boat to Bohol on Sunday, we decided to get some beers for the journey. The Philippines is an odd country. A few of the others asked for 28 beers (4 each) and they were told that they could have 12. Why don't they want our money? Also, why do cash machines give out 500 and 1000 peso notes when the locals don't have change for them? And those that have change don't like giving it to you. So anyway, we got on the boat and this took speedboat to a...

This morning we had an early start, 4am to be precise, all for a 30 minute swim with whale sharks. We had a three hour bus journey to Oslob and most of it was spent sleeping. When we got to Oslob, we purchased our tickets and headed to grab our snorkelling gear. Our first task was to pile in to a boat for the long 50m boat journey. We had paid £15 for a boat to take us 50m off the coast!! It's ok though, they waited for us so that they could bring us back. We...

When we left Boracay, Dan left us for a couple of days to go to his cousins wedding in Naga City. We headed to Cebu City with no idea of what to do for a couple of days. We asked the taxi driver to drop us somewhere central and he dropped us outside Pizza Hut. Perfect!! This was somewhere to eat, gather our thoughts, and find accommodation using their wifi. As we sat down, Dave realised he had left his phone in the taxi.......not only was the taxi driver gone...

When we arrived in Manila we had to get a taxi from one airport to the other. We shared the taxi with a couple of locals and they filled us in on the local dishes that we should try - Adobo, Sinigang, Lechon. They also introduced us to a couple of useful phrases: Como Stas - Hello Salamat - Thank you On arrival to the main Manila airport we met up with the rest of the group - Dan, Ed and Andy. It was about 3am, none of us had slept properly for the best part o...