That thing when you're idly Googling for information on a region with little to no tourist infrastructure and all your research keeps coming back to one particular village which just happens to be home to a legendary traditional tattoo artist so you take it as a sign and start planning your trip there because basically, [...]
We've not dragged out sleep deprived carcasses out of bed for a sunrise for a while and apparently Kiltepan Peak is the place to go. We knew we could get a car to take us there for ₱350 (good for as many humans as you can fit in the car I guess?) but we didn't [...]
In all of my infinite wisdom I booked us a super early flight from Singapore to Manila, the method in the madness being that we'd get to spend a whole day in Singapore then head to the airport and not have to fork out for a night's accommodation but it turned out there is more [...]
All of the moisture in my head had been replaced with sand in the night. I looked around for the badger whose arse I felt like I'd been licking. Ugh. Fuck alcohol, I'm never drinking again* (* Terms and conditions apply). The gorgeous shower at the hostel went some way to restoring some shred of [...]
So kaya toast has been added firmly to the list of "shit I enjoy applying liberally to my facehole." We went to Ya Kun Kaya Toast where you can choose from set meals which include two soft boiled eggs cracked into a bowl and a cuppa, and when I say soft boiled I'm talking only [...]
Singapore is the perfect antidote to the trauma (*dramatically presses back of hand to forehead*) of spending the best part of two weeks face down in a pool of your own rancid sweat because your left lung somehow managed to pick up a dose of fucking pneumonia somewhere along the line. Only my left lung, [...]
Generally, admitting yourself to hospital during a trip isn't something you look back on with fondness but it's not often you get your own room with AC and a reliably hot shower, decent WiFi and three meals a day which you select off a menu delivered to your bed whilst you watch movies on HBO. [...]
Turns out that spending the night on a boat docked at a port isn't conducive to a good night's sleep. Fuck me, ports are noisy places. Add to that I'd developed a mean cough over the previous couple of days, I think my hacking would have kept half of Labuan Bajo awake. We'd had a [...]
So it turns out that travel sickness tablets block up both ends. Who knew? I kind of just figured my colon had gone on strike in protest at the whole being on a boat thing which not many of my organs were particularly chuffed about but nope, I woke up at some god awful hour [...]
I wouldn't have rated my sleep as quality last night but the back and forth rocking of the boat was much less traumatic than the side to side of the other night. I opened my eyes and peered outside. The sky was on fire! What a stunning sunrise. My basic motor functions grudgingly agreed to [...]
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