Welcom to Manila

Hi Everyone.

We’ve arrived now and love the place. We left from LHR on KLM at 8.40 on 12th November. The first flight was about an hour. We spent three hours at Schipol Airport before boarding the next flight to Manila.

The journey took 12 hours and I’m glad we paid the 70 euro upgrade fee to have seats with a bit more legroom.

We were met at the airport and took a somewhat overpriced ‘airport’ taxi at a cost of 1350 pesos. Apparently the ‘regular’ taxi that they had used to meet me was 260 pesos. But the you can’t complain much at £18 for a 2 hour taxi journey.

The traffic here makes the Middle East driving seem tame. Even with my gung-ho attitude, I don’t think you’d get me behind the wheel of a car. I’ll take some photos later and upload them.

The appartment is great and excellent value too at just under £15 a day! The only disadvantage being that it’s a little bit remote from the attractions but I plan on using it as a base as we travel around.

Still suffering from jetlag and also feeling a bit hungover as we meet some American Internet entrepreneurs last night and got horribly drunk with them. Whoops. They’ve been here a couple of months and are setting up an SEO company here.

Anyway. I’m on my iPhone right now so typing this one finger is getting a but tedious. So I’ll finish with a photo from the appartment balcony.