Hey Joe

Sometimes when you travel in around a country you have a soundtrack to your holiday playing in your head, so when you hear a song you’re instantly transported back to a time and place. That song for the Philippines will most certainly be “Hey Joe” by Jimi Hendrix……
Yes I know, not the first song that [...]

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The Sands of Time

I woke with the sunlight streaming through the window…..
Rolling out of bed I open the doors to my balcony and look out onto the beach…..
A soft breeze and the warmth of the sun welcomes me to a new day….
I board the boat, sit back and let the boat take me out onto the deep blue [...]

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The sands of time – part 2

Okay apart from the golden locks part, everything in part 1 was completely true, now for a less polished version.
I happened upon my room completely by accident, I was trying to find a cheap place on the beach (Alona Beach, on Panglao Island off Bohol) and one of the touts from a dive shop had [...]

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Dumaguete

I spent the last few days in a town called Dumaguete on the island of Negros, it’s a nice laidback town where every evening the whole town seems to go out and stroll along the promenade at sunset, or just sit and watch the sea and the boats….
In Dumaguete they have a place called Derm [...]

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Chocolate Hills

Arrived into the madness of Manila and very quickly hopped onto a plane to the much quieter island of Bohol where I travelled to the interior of the island to the small town of Loboc.Just 3km outside the town is Nuts Huts, where I stayed for the next few days in a hut by the [...]

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One thing that leapt out at me when I was reading …

One thing that leapt out at me when I was reading my guidebook to Brunei was Jerudong Amusement Park, it claims to be the biggest amusement park in the world, given as a gift by the Sultan to his people in 1984 to celebrate his 48th birthday, have I already told you what a nice [...]

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City of water and lights

For me Brunei has been all about lights and water, the buildings are alllit up at night and some of favouote things have involved travelling by water.
I arrived in Brunei by boat, entertained by a classy Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, and drove into the city as the sunset, the lights to celebrate the Sultan’s birthday [...]

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When you think of Brunei, the first thing that mos…

When you think of Brunei, the first thing that most people have in mind is the Sultan, once the richest man in the world until them pesky geeks muscled their way in, and from the moment I arrived I’ve seen the Sultan everywhere, on the bank notes, on bill boards, on posters hanging on the [...]

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Picture the scene, it’s July, you’re sitting relaxing in a cafe, you’re in an Islamic country, lets say Brunei for example, and some music drifts down to your ears, it sounds familiar, a song you’ve known all your life, “Silent night, holy night, all in calm…..”. Something’s not right, you beckon the waitress over, ever [...]

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Ah you’re Irish

I was wandering through the bus station today looking lost and wondering where my bus was when I was approached by a local wondering if he could help, within seconds he’d shown be where to wait for my bus and since I’d be waiting a while for the bus we got chatting.
When he heard I [...]

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