Day 5 of Philippines 2025 trip
The Island Escapades tour (also known as Coron Tour C), came recommended as a way to see glittering turquoise waters, sandy beaches and some underwater sea life. This is a pic heavy post!
Day 4 of Philippines 2025 trip
Coron, which is in the archipelago province of Palawan in Western Philippines is known for its natural beauty. We planned to spend two days doing two different boat tours, with Coron Town as the jump off point. We were going to be treated to some lovely beaches and lakes. Our island hopping adventure begins today!
Day 3 of Philippines 2025 trip
We spent the evening in Cebu celebrating Ippy’s birthday. Things didn’t go strictly to plan, but everything turned out alright after all.
Day 3 of Philippines 2025 trip
Because we were successful in finding Whale Sharks in Donsol yesterday, today we had time to do something else, so we decided to move on from Donsol to Lagazpi to check out Mount Mayon, the Philippines’ most active but pretty volcano.
Day 1 of Philippines 2025 trip
Today we were getting a small taste of Manila, which in my mind was always a bit of a scary (but boring) place. Most tourists never did anything in Manila anyway, but we had some things in mind. Then we were off to Donsol in south-east Luzon, before “hopping” to the next island.
Day 0 of Philippines 2025 trip
A trip to the Philippines was always on the horizon for us with A having lived there a few years during his childhood, and he was keen to revisit. 2025 granted us an easy way to take a block of leave with the Easter public holidays and ANZAC day appearing close together, so it was a bit of a no brainer. It was also whale shark season (more on that later). And it was my birthday again, so time for a trip!
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This is a placholder post, possibly to give myself some accountability.
In 2023, we visited South Korea for the first time.
Continue reading to see an itinerary of where we went.
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This is a placholder post, possibly to give myself some accountability.
In 2023, we visited Japan, the first time in 10 years for me and 6 years for A.
Continue reading to see an itinerary of where we went.
Day 10 of Tasmania 2022 trip
It was starting to feel like we had allocated too many days to Hobart and we felt quite constrained without having a car. Today was market day but found there wasn’t much else we could tackle without a car, so the logical thing to do was to hire a car again, just for the day.
Day 9 of Tasmania 2022 trip
Yes, it happens. Today was dedicated to visiting the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). This is an art museum privately funded by a rich dude which subsequently boosted tourism immensely in Tasmania. So, expectations were sky high.
Later, we have a subpar evening in Hobart.
