loafing in airport lounge f***ing rain. best photo ever. goodbye or adios nothing much to say about that.....

Going home. Im afraid its home time now. So i say my farewells to the Philippines and Hong Kong, although i have a feeling i may return at some point. Ill summarise my trip at the end of my blog. Accomodation List:- 1,2 Chung King Mansions - Kowloon, Hong Kong 3-21 Sandras Guesthouse - White Beach - Boracay, Panay, Philippines 22-25 Banwa Guesthouse (The Best place i stayed on the whole trip - Puerto Princessa, Palawan 26-27 Marys Cottage - Sabang 28-29 ...

Sabang beach - Puerto Galera - mainland Mindoro. Heading called cultural encounters, more seediest encounters of the male kind. awful place. nothing to discuss. sex tourism at its worst avoid at all costs....

Blimey, Manila is as dodge as the guidebooks hint. Or as dodgy as you wanna make it. Most gentrified, just another Asian supercity with malls cinemas etc. But theres a nasty undercurrent if you get off the main streets. as usual. I hear helipcopters from my grotty room in a crap guesthouse...im staying in a dorm here.....it all sounds very Vietnam, its really humid and the copters are echoing off the buildings around the city, so im off to have a look. Turn...

Helichopters Directions from a man with a shotgun Dirty, smelly seedy Off to puerto Valera