We are lucky enough to be here ( ok that sentence can just end there) but on top of just that truth we are extra lucky that our visit has coincided with the 500th anniversary of Chief Lapu-Lapu repelling Magellan (and thus delaying colonization for 30 years). And this means 500 year celebration!! As a […]

Read More Garbo sa Lapu-Lapu (Pride of Lapu-Lapu) a.k.a More is more!

Now that we are settling in for a while, and have this great neighborhood, we decided to splurge on getting “new” bikes for the girls. Merry early Christmas!! We are, naturally, always trying to do things on the cheap so after chatting up one of our tricycle drivers (there are a set of regular ones […]

Read More Christmas comes early in the PI!

We’ve spent the week focusing on finding a place to live and in between our ‘International House Hunters’ Cabigting version we’ve really started getting into a groove on the relaxation. True we have been on our vacation/adventure for nearing 2 months (what?!) but in that time we have been doing a fair amount of traveling […]

Read More Getting the hang of hangin’

We’ve got a home!! Bayswater. Lovely ring to it, no? Ha! We thought it was odd how poorly it rolled off the tongue at first, but now that we’ve been here nearly 2 weeks and with the Filipino accent that we’ve been saying it and hearing it, it’s perfect. We ended up staying in the […]

Read More Settled! ish 😉

We are staying in an adorable, clean, cool, perfectly appointed little condo on Mactan Island. We are here on Cebu Island for the next 3-4 months and are hoping to use this next week to find more permanent housing. How did we pick Cebu? Why? Good question! We’ve been asking ourselves too…not because its not […]

Read More We made it to Cebu!

Alternate title: when language barriers work in your favor 🙂 The Philippines hasn’t traditionally celebrated Halloween (or so we were told) but recently it has started embracing the trend. It seems mostly commercially sponsored and promoted: clue 1: Trick or treating only seems to happen in the mall. It should be noted, though, that the […]

Read More Happy Halloween!

Back in Manila! We had to get extended visas and we were told we could only do the long term extensions in Manila. This may or may not be true (it seemed to be incorrect) as we were only able to extend for 59 days and then we will need to return to another immigration […]

Read More Immigration, Intramuros and ALL the modes of transport

It’s a 3 for 1! We’ve found the best way to limit the spending is to stay at our home stay (not really a hardship with the pool and lovely weather) but despite the loveliness of relaxing we do like to have some type of outing, and so with ambitious spirits and optimism on our […]

Read More Urban hiking: seeing the sights, character building or budget travel?

Our last few days in Bali have been so fantastic, and our last evening particularly magical. Mostly thanks to these folks: Our last half of our stay with Michiko we were joined at her house by Natasha and Adrian from Austria. They too are on a long 7 month travel around the globe and are […]

Read More Sunrise, sunset