Siquijor is an hour-and-a-half boat ride from Dumaguete. For Filipinos it's said to be an island of mystery and the unknown. Witchcraft and god knows what else goes on here we'd been told. A few months ago, Ellen fell off her bicycle back in Toronto and hurt her shoulder. Modern medicine doesn't seem to have an answer for the pain that she still suffers. So this morning we rented a motorbike and struck off into the interior of Siquijor, an island th...

 Bunnies and geckos are wonderful creatures. We love them both to death. Some of us back home even let bunnies roam the house free. Then they start crapping everywhere and it all changes. Geckos do the same thing. The difference though, is that you can choose whether or not to let bunnies live in your home. It's not so easy with geckos. I wake up in the morning before daylight in our spacious bamboo hut at the Kookoo's Nest and have to watch my every ste...

Our first night in the Philippine, we stayed at a little hole in the wall of a rat's nest called the Townhouse. We needed a place to catch a few hours sleep as we had an early morning flight to Dumaguete, on the south coast of Negros. The Townhouse is convenient and inexpensive, but to stay there again they'd need to pay me. It was maybe the worst place I've ever stayed. A good spot perhaps to commit suicide, it might help one along in their depressio...