24th - 29th March 2012
We spent much of our time in El Nido just chilling out, the day after we arrived we had a gorgeous vegetable curry and G&T for dinner and it was a restaurant that I returned to when I wanted to write. Both of us worked out which wasn't much fun without a fan, the electricity came on around 2pm and lasted until the evening. We read and watched films and took walks along the beach. It rained solidly for one day, the day that we'd planned to join a boat trip around some of the islands so we decided to put it off until the following and what turned out to be our last day.
The boat trip was okay, I really think that the success of these trips depends a lot on who you're spending the day with, we had a few very Americanised Filipino's, a young Russian couple, a Dutch couple who were friendly and a young Filipino girl with a much older (and rather annoying) American man. You could say it was a mixed bag, the islands were quite nice but because I didn't want to get my burn wet, or at least as little as possible, I declined the snorkelling into “secret” lagoons and stayed on the boat. We stopped for lunch on one island and listened to half blind cat perched on the roof of a hut constantly meowing for food, I gave in and delivered up some fish careful to keep my distance – it looked a bit bonkers. We stopped off at the last beach and had a coconut to drink before killing some time swimming (Djalma) and sitting on a quiet rock at the far end of the beach (me). I was quite relived to get off the boat and back to the relative quiet of our hotel room.
We had steak for dinner at a French restaurant that night - it was gorgeous although I was told by the waitress that I couldn't half my particular steak cooked medium because it wouldn't be good, I had it medium rare and swapped it with Djalma's medium cooked steak when the blood became a little too much.
We left early the next morning and got a bus going to Roxas where we changed and got a Jeepney to Port Barton, a much quieter town that was definitely more suited to doing absolutely nothing.
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