Feeling a tad fragile this morning, I couldn’t lift my head of the pillow so quickly and the mouth felt like it had a bucket of sand in it. I was very happy not moving very far!

We did get up and go to the ministop shop to stretch the legs and wet the whistle but food was a struggle!
We waited around the hostel for over an hour or so back in bed before we checked out and started the monster travel for one last time! How is it ready to go home now? It’s gone so fast!!

First the rickety tricycle to the ferry port for 150pesos, dodging the potholes and people! It felt like d*** dastardly’s cart was going to come off a few times with us going one way in the cart and him going the other way on the motorbike. Honestly if that had happened I don’t even think we would be surprised haha!

Next, the pump boat. To manoeuvre ourselves over a bride that wasn’t really secured to the land or the boat just sort of balanced there. It was a task in itself to not fall over the edge and loose your bag or dignity in a T-shirt dress with thongs on! The ten minute boat ride was successful and I even managed to sneak into the ferry port through the exit door for a wee on the other side without the security finding me and having to pay the terminal fee again. Sly cat!

Third mode of transportation... the minivan! Oh yes the minivan, oh how we have not missed these things! We were in the very back this time. We had to climb in through the boot onto the fold down chairs that are knees were pressed into the chair in front of us because there was no room for our legs. The bags then got squished into the tiny gap next to me and a young boy that definitely took one for the team when Ellie’s turtle shell bag was protruding into him for the entire 2 hour drive down to Kalibo airport. Haha! The fact I was feeling sick and Ellie has a sore tummy, we both have alcohol sweats and can’t move isn’t helping the situation at all.

Thank gosh the ride was only two hours long! Now we just have to wait for them to open the airport so we can check the bags in, yes. They made us sit outside the airport until 2pm because it wasn’t time for or flight haha! Never have we ever been refused entry to an airport because it’s too small to hold more than two flights worth of passengers in their domestic departures hall.

Eventually we were let in now we had to wait for them to all check in their one hundred bags each and recheck their weight because oh they didn’t realise that they have a baggage limit. Then they moved our seats to the emergency exit, can we help in case of an emergency (Ellie’s pauses and looks at me with her nervous worried look, yes beth can help Ellie with hold her oxygen mask.)

The airport was tiny and thankfully we didn’t need to wait long before we were boarding!

The fight was practically empty and we had arrived in Manila after 30 minutes but with ground traffic and getting to the gate took forever so we didn’t manage to get to our hotel outside terminal 1 (ready for the morning) until 6pm. By that time we were starving so we spent the last bits of pesos we had in the 7/11 on a cheese toastie and bag of crisps and chilled in the room ready for the morning!

Or morning seems to keep getting earlier every bloody time, we couldn’t check in so we need to go earlier then we wanted to and then we can’t go at the time we wanted to so we have to go on the 4am shuttle, so now I have to be awake at 3.30am. Bloody marvellous!