Nancy and Adrian have just left after a week of checking out our life over here in Manila. We went to Charlie's school concert, a beautiful restaurant called the Goose Station and a great holiday on Palawan Island. We went to see the underground river in Sabang which is in Palawan - it was well worth it - the mangrove tour is beautiful. Palawan has been left relatively unscathed by tourism - it was a great contrast to Boracay and such wild beautiful topography. I think we will go back!
The Morton and Fuller families had collected some money to donate to charity at Christmas time so we went out to Kaibigan Centre in Pasay which has a water Station attached to a refuge for street dwellers. It is a Non government org giving access to food and washing facilites to people that live on the street. They are allowed to stay overnight only if they are sick. 5 children had just been brought in - having been found begging on the streets as their parents had abandoned them. It was a really interesting visit and they appreciated the money donated by the Fullers/ Mortons - it was going to go directly into medicine for a couple of the street dwellers who have tuberculosis and breast cancer. There is no end to people you can help over here..
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| Getting ready for the ANZA ball (1920's theme) |
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| Martin, me, Jamie and Kate |
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| Charlie in Barong costume getting ready for his concert |
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| Dancing Charlie |
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| Nance and Adrian getting ready to see the concert! |
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| Charlie dancing with Maribel in native hats |
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| Found a good restaurant in Manila - the Goose Station |
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| A 'simple' salad of carrot juice and goats cheese |
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| Dessert |
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| First stop on Palawan Island can't go past buko juice! |
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| Charlie and William a bit worries about trying the seaweed! |
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| Nancy and Adrian cheering the local juices. |
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| Surprised to find such a great restaurant straight away - and it was sooo cheap! |
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| Artwork |
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| The garden at the restaurant |
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| Charlie learning to smoke on our 2 hour drive to resort from airport |
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| Limestone cliffs and rice paddys on the way |
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| More |
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| Palawan is beautiful! |
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| Entry into underground river one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. |
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| Adrian is on holidays not going to work! |
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| Boys loved the caves - 8km long and 65m high in places |
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| Basketball |
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| Waiting at the mouth of the river |
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| Local transport on Sabang beach |
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| Charlie walking on water |
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| Cheeky Charlie |
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| Don't think he is going to get away with it! |
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| William got him. |
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| Martin taking William out surf Kayaking |
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| William not happy |
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| Coming back in much to William's relief |
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| Getting caught in the rain walking to the mangrove |
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| Lucky it's not cold |
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| William and Charlie braving a look at the log that looks like a giant crocodile in the distance |
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| Mangrove tour |
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| Virgin mangrove forest - beautiful |
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| Mangrove snake |
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| The resort |
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| Boys playing |
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| William has lost 7 teeth already - looking forward to new ones growing |
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| William on zip line |
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| Charlie wasn't quite ready for zip line adventure... |
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| Wild boy back for another go! |
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| visit to CCT Kaibigan Centre to give Fuller / Morton donation |
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| Viewing the Waterhope waterstation at the Centre |
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| 3 of the street kids who were found abandoned by parents with our driver Alan |
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| Street people using the washing facilities at the centre before they go back out to do their scavenging work |
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