Negros, and our weeklong hideout at Sugar Beach, Sipalay

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February 17th 2013

Published: March 11th 2013

Getting to Negros from Bantayan is for the well-travelled. People gather at the ferry station in Bantayan town (where there are, so to speak, no tourists), and depending on the day, the ferry may go to one of two ports on Negros. This means you may or may not have to take an 8-hour bus to Bacolod instead of a 4-hour one. Also everyone gets there early, adding to the excitement, even though the boa... Read Full Entry

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Sadie & Øyvind

Sadieandoyvind

We are Sadie and Øyvind, she is 28 and Spanish-American (raised in Barcelona, American by passport) and he is 35 and Norwegian all the way. We are married and live in Oslo (moved here together in 2008) and we both work in film and TV, Øyvind is a photografer and Sadie is a director working as a koordinator/AD :) We are quitting our jobs, packing up and leaving for the trip of a lifetime together! Our plans are to be gone anywhere between 6 and 10 months, and we hope to get off the beaten track and maybe work/volunteer along the way in order to better get to know the countries we visit and t... full info

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Evening colors

Marine life

The life around the reefs is great to look at and so easy to get to with just snorklers

Night is falling

Feelin' blue?

Lonely chair

To be sitting here at the middle of the day was close to impossible

Evening fun

Every afternoon, the staff at Driftwood Village raley up everyone who's up for it and play volleyball at the beach

Volleyball Driftwood teams

To much heat

Even the water buffalo had to be led to the salt water to get cooled down

Local fishing boat

the boats are very simple, but very steady in pretty much any kind of wather

The restaurant

The seating over two floors was the scene for many wonderful meals

Driftwood bar

pool, fussball, beer and great people

Our home

this is where we enjoyed our great week at Driftwood Village

Sadie and the dog

We inherited a dog after the previous guests that had stayed in our bungalow. They had stayed there for so long and became such good friends with the dog, so the dog had decided to stay and wait for its new friend

Inside our bungalow

simple, but so great

Waving farewell to our paradise

Our last view, but hopefully we'll be back

12th March 2013

liliram
liliram

Sunsets
Those are lovely sunset shots! Btw, the dog missing his friends make me cry :-(

14th March 2013

Sadieandoyvind
Sadie & Øyvind

Thanks :)
Hey liliram, glad you liked the shots... yeah, the dog made us kind of sad too, but we were all really friendly to him still... maybe the guy who was there before was giving him special treats? ;)

14th March 2013

mom
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øyvind, "swing a long" is a jewel...as are the sunsets...and i love the twin-shots on the boat... "the entire dish can be different from place to place, all depending on who makes it and, basically, what their mother thinks is the best way to make it"... and the "low-key feet-in-the-sand type of place" are signature one-liners, thanks sadie c. thanks to both of you, i'm there! in paradise! eating! with my feet in the sand!

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