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January 19th 2010

Published: February 7th 2010

There were a million things we'd have loved to do in the Philippines, but a while back we'd decided that top of our list would be to go to the Ati-Atihan festival, said to be the wildest and most colourful of all festivals in South East Asia. We'd had to pre book our hotel in advance so were a bit limited with how we could spend our remaining few weeks. Along with Dominic we'd all decided to hea... Read Full Entry

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Sophie & Dale

Sophie and Dale

Back in 2008 we took 21 months off work, rented out the house, found a foster home for Stuart (cat!) and ventured out to the big wide world. We saw as many places as we could fit in in the time we were on the road and returned home in February 2010 after a truly life changing and eye opening journey. Our adventure lasted... 615 days! After our return we fell into the routine of life back in the UK but have always planned to get back out there as soon as we could. It took a bit longer than we'd hoped but we did squeeze in getting married and a few holidays ... full info

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7th February 2010

TinNiE
" Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness "

:)
I share your sentiment about the taxi drivers =( "...made a change from the Jollibee we'd been eating up to that point..." ~~~ that part made me chuckle =) lovely photos you got here .. dale & manny's photo looked pretty cool! I'm really glad you had a great time! I hope next time I'd be able to catch up with you guys ...

7th February 2010

Holly
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Super Awesome
Great blog guys. Loved all the videos...you must have had a good internet connection!! When are you home?? Hxxx

7th February 2010

lostsomewhere
garret

excited and jealous
Your posts about the philippines have me really excited my trip there this summer. I have not been back in 14 years. Growing up in Manila there was so much of the country I did not see. Thanks to the poor transportation and tourism infrastructure at that time. It seems like things have improved on that front. I do have a question.... If you had to pick between Coron and El Nido, which would it be? Garret

8th February 2010

Marco
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Ending with a bang!
I guess you guys ended your Philippine leg with a bang, literally! And do come back, other than the fact that there are not a lot of tourists to speak of, you still have about - hmmm - 6, 999 islands to discover! Great blog, guys! Happy travels, Marco

9th February 2010

overtheworld
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hello sophie and dale, i stumbled upon your blog and it is fantastic. we are going on a southeast asian trip this april and we never considered the philipines as we thought it is a dangerous country. after reading your blog, we have decided to go there. thanks for the tips.

4th August 2010

noel pocot
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Nice photos
Hi I'm a painter and I would love to use some of your photos for as subjects. Would that be possible then? Thanks Noel

12th March 2011

Lurhen
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
From a Filipina living in Montreal, Canada, I appreciate your nice words to describe the Philippines. Travel safe!

26th November 2012

archilles
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try cebu next time...
hey guys, it was fun reading your blog... if you're planning to visit the Philippines again, try Cebu. the Sinulog festival will offer u more Ati-atihan had. it's every 3rd sunday of january. yeah, same with atihan, it's a feast for Sr, Sto. Nino.

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