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Sweet Madeleines
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 30 April 2010
It’s a wonderful thing, being a child. Who would have thought a palm tree could have provided pretty much an entire day’s amusement? Scaling it. Monkey-climbing it. Swinging from it. Jumping from it. Building fires under it… I had planned to leave Port Barton today, which, given we hadn’t planned on being here in the [...]
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Maritime Woes
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 29 April 2010
There are many things unique and wonderful about the Philippines. But the boatmen here are phenomenal in many of the wrong ways. Right now, sat in utter serenity on a perfect crescent of a beach (me) and scaling a coconut palm (Z), the various unpleasantnesses of the morning feel like serendipity in action. All the [...]
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Cock Fights & Naughty Monkeys
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 13 February 2010
Relaxing as it is to spend time diving, snorkelling and island hopping, even that gets a little strenous after a while (it’s a hard life), so it was time to leave El Nido for somewhere even more relaxing. Port Barton lies on the coast of Palawan, about half way between the tourist centres of El [...]
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