Whilst we find somewhere more permanent to live in the Málaga area we are living in an apartment in the centre of the city of Málaga. This is a mixed blessing. It’s fantastic to have the old town of Málaga right on our doorstep; there are plenty of opportunities for exploring. Perfect if you have …
Neither Simon nor I speak much Spanish. In fact, we’re in the positively elementary stages of learning it. But we’re living in Spain. And we need to buy a car. We ventured out last weekend to try to do just that. We had a few phrases of Spanish to hand, but we hoped that all …
I am still figuring out what to do with my blog. I do have some readers (believe it or not) who are interested in what we’re up to, so I’ll carry on with stories of our moving about for now. We have been in Malaga for 4 weeks, so I’ve got some catching up to …
Almost 18 months after we deplaned (a word I first encountered in the Philippines) our Cathay Pacific flight from London, via Hong Kong, to Manila, we boarded our Philippine Airlines flight direct to London. With a one-way ticket. Our time in the Philippines had come to an end. When we arrived in Manila, it was …
I’ve heard people say that the Philippines is the ‘texting capital of the world’. I’m not sure of the latest stats on this, but anecdotal evidence does point very much in this direction. There are a number of reasons for this: Texts are very cheap to send – 1 Peso (about 1 pence) each; about …
You park your car. You pay your fee to park your car. You go and do whatever it is that you need to do. You’re a bit longer than you thought you would be. You go back to where your car was parked. And there is no car. All there is, is a note on …
This may just be my perception, but generally things in the Philippines don’t seem very organised. For example, a number of the doctors that I’ve seen don’t work by appointment – you just turn up and wait your turn. I don’t *think* there bus timetables – you just show up at the station and wait …
So I was shopping for my brother’s birthday present today. I live in the Philippines, he lives in the UK. I decided to order him some gift vouchers from Charles Tyrwhitt. I searched for Charles Tyrwhitt through Google and landed on their homepage www.ctshirts.co.uk.The first thing I noticed was that I couldn’t see where I …
Easter, or Holy Week, is a big thing in the Philippines. So big that even all the shops and most restaurants close. For 2 whole days.Greenbelt is a big mall near to where we live. It is a mixture of buildings and green space, with a large semi-open-air chapel in the middle of it. On …
The weekend before Easter we ventured out on our first family holiday. We hired a car and a driver from Viajero Rent-A-Car and set off on our adventure to Baguio. Baguio is about 240km North of Manila. The drive, with about 1.5 hours break, took roughly 7 hours. For the first hour, we were hostage …
