Monday 8am ... Angeles City

Well yesterday morning after a wonderful breakfast I went for a long walk, my ankle is holding up and I walked at a very leisurely pace anyway, I walked along the main road for an hour and then back again, not really much too see at all except a new'ish Mall.
I didn't see any girly bars at all but I am sure that they are here somewhere, at least they are not in your face which helps.

I just stayed in again last night, watched some tv and sat in the restaurant on my laptop with a couple of beers. There was a karaoke machine on and ocassionly someone would sing to it... cat's choir comes to mind. There was about 25 people in the restaurent but it is quite big so looked quite empty, the scene reminded me of some of the "clubs" that you see onTV in places like Liverpool where there about 5 people there and a singer that can't sing and no-one is listening to them anyway, the people that are there look so sad, probably been together for 25 years and don't have a word to say to each other. Do you get the picture ??........ but at least here it is hot and there was 6 pretty waitresses walking around in their Xmas uniforms to keep the boredom away. Before anyone gets the wrong idea this is a totally "proper or Kosher" place.

I visited the travel agent here to find something worthwhile to do today, ( Monday) but the only things available was a day's flight around to another island with lunch there and then fly back. I was interested in this and the cost was £85 per person, I said yes but because I am a group of 1, I would then have to pay for all 3 seats on the aircraft, this would have meant over £250 for the day, too much for something that I have experienced before so I declined.

I was thinking about going home a day early but have decided just to continue relaxing here and eat well for one more day. Though I have rarely left the hotel complex it has been really nice to get away from Manila for a few days, the food here is really great, dishes that I am used to eating like, sausages, eggs and beans for breakfast although i don't have that at home these days, it is nice to have when on holiday. Lunch and dinner menus are the same, I can have chicken or beef pies with mash and they do a wicked cottage pie. It is really nice to eat food that is really appealing to look at, whilst waiting to be served the expectation is high and has always been tasty so far.

It's just after 8am, I have finished my breakfast, 2 sausages, 2 eggs, beans and 2 toast.................. really tasty. I will, after writing this try and go for another walk in another direction, I will ensure that I am back in time for lunch with a hungry appetite.

Hope you all have a great start to your last... probably.... working week of the year, enjoy your weather as you could be suffering like me with this sunshine every day.