An early rise to depart by 5 am. As I said in my last entry, you negotiate taxi fares. We found a driver and his price was a 1000K more ($1... $4 in total) than a previous trip. He said it was because we had four big bags. In we squeezed and then so did 2 drivers. That's right two drivers. One was the driver, the other was learning to drive. No one blinked an eyelid. We prayed a lot and managed to arrive safely at the station with a few gasps on the way when...

I remember our first night in Manila in 2012 and thinking....... what are we doing here, this is all so , so different, how will we adjust? Similar thoughts went through my mind after the "internal panic" of getting all the paperwork, visa etc ready for immigration and then finding the process quite smooth. While I grabbed the bags, Helen went and exchanged some Singapore dollars for local money..... forgot to tell her to take a wheelbarrow. Talking with Brad, he...

Fabian from CPM picked us up about 9.30 and drove us to Church Office . To now see where we were and what lay around us was an eye opener. Many older buildings left over from the colonial days and lots of destruction and reconstruction being carried out all over the city. We have soon discovered that sharing tea is the custom with guests and the warm Chinese tea was welcomed as we sat and discussed the development plan of the Diocese and what the possibilities w...