A few weekends ago (22 March) we boarded a Cebu Pacific flight to Kuala Lumpur. Cebu Pacific is one of the Philippines’ low cost airlines. They have a great system whereby you can make your booking online and pay for it at an ATM before midnight of the same day. This is particularly useful when …
There has been a bit of a time lag between the last post about Taiwan. But the second part of the adventure was what really defined our trip to Taiwan. We had less than 24 hours in Taipei, so we woke relatively early on our second morning there to pay a visit to the Xing …
Upon arriving home from work at about 7:45 on Friday night, Simon asked if I fancied going for a few drinks with some of his work colleagues at a local bar – Handlebar. We didn’t have any plans at all for the weekend, so why not? There was a good crowd there – a mix …
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After the strenuous ascent to the top of Taipei 101, we went in search of some much-needed sustenance. There are a number of night markets in Taipei: Shilin seems to be the most famous; Hwahsi Jie is also referred to as ‘Snake Alley’ and the one we chose, Raohe Street. There are others too. Shilin gets …
A few weeks ago we received an invitation, from my friend Petula, to join her and her in-laws in Taiwan for the tail end of Chinese New Year. We checked out flights, Simon booked the time off work and away we went. In the Manila area we have a choice of 2 airports: Ninoy Aquino …
Taal Volcano Island’s lake On Friday 8 February, I received another forwarded email from Simon. This time a bunch of his colleagues had arranged a day trip to the nearby volcano town, Tagatay. There were 7 of us, so we hired a car with a driver to take us the 60km South to Tagatay. The …
On Friday 1 February, I received a forwarded email from Simon. One of his colleagues was suggesting a one-night getaway to ‘Puerto Galera’ on Mindoro Island (the island immediately south of Luzon, where Manila is). It was rather serendipitous as we’d been planning to get out of Manila in one way or another that weekend. …
36 hour beach break: Manila – Sabang (Mindoro island) Read More »
So you’re on an underground/metro/subway/other urban rail transport system. You know where you got on (probably) and you know where you need to get off or change (hopefully). But do you know where you are whilst en-route? Probably not. Hong Kong’s MTR has a lot going for it. It’s efficient, the ticketing system (Octopus cards) …
Having worked at British Airways for the past 2.5 years, and having been on my mum’s concessions at bmi for the preceeding 12 years, I was used to arriving at airports not knowing whether I would be getting on the flight I was booked on or not. I didn’t have this issue on the day …
I’m off to the o2 Arena on Saturday night to watch a gig. It’s a pretty awkward place to get to if you live Westwards outside of London. Taking the train will probably take considerably longer than driving, what with all the changes and waiting around. But what about parking? My first port of call …
