Setting off Travelling – Again!
We’ve done it, we quit our jobs, packed up our things and headed off around the world again. Olly and I always wanted to come back as we both felt like we hadn’t got the travelling bug out of us just yet. We are young enough to be able to do it so why the hell not! We worked our arses off in Australia the first time to earn our second year visa. It seemed silly not to come back to Australia to work for another year before it was too late.
One night in Manila
Me and Olly flew into Manila which is the capital of the Philippines and only stayed one night as we had our flight booked to Cebu the next day. After a 14 hour direct flight from Heathrow, we needed one night to recover.
There isn’t too much to do here, most people only use Manila as a stop over. We booked into The Lub D hostel. These are a chain throughout Thailand which have been voted the best hostels in South East Asia. It sounded perfect for our first night getting used to being a backpacker again.
The rooms are huge, the beds are comfortable and the wi-fi is great. Not to mention the clean bathrooms with hairdryer and straightener on the side for everyone to use. This hostel was great and it is very safe here. The staff are also super friendly and helped us get a ‘Grab’ (Philippines equivalent to Uber).
As we were only here for one night we went out for one drink in Penthouse, a fancy 1920’s bar that looks out over the most of Manila. The bar is on the 24th floor and the entrance on the ground floor looks residential, so just walked in and ask the guard for the bar. The first thing we see is the ‘no guns’ sign.
The first night in Manila I did wake Olly up at 2am thinking we had slept in till the afternoon and started to panic. He told me to shut up and go back to sleep. We managed to sleep until 7am and we were wide awake which was so annoying. Somehow we managed to get back to sleep..and woke up at 1pm! Just in time for lunch! God how I have missed being able to sleep as much as I want. Olly doesn’t share this love and wants to get up and go and explore straight away. Lets see how long this lasts..
Our next post will be about the island of Cebu and everything this amazing place has to offer.
