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We spent the past 3 days on a island called Borakay. This is a holiday party island and we took the party part very seriously. But we almost didn't get there in the first place. Once again we went to the wrong airport. Philippine Airlines domestic flights departs from two different terminals and of course we went to the same one that our Sorsogon flight went from and it was wrong, so we had to jump into a cab and get to the other terminal. Luckly our cab driver was like a rally driver and we got on time to the check in...or at least according to or watch. But when we tryed to check in the guy behind the desk got really confused and after asking his superviseor he told that our fligt was closed. We tryed to argue thet it was not even 8:00 and 45 min befor departure, but he keept on insisting that they have syncronized wathes and they know best. When we figured out that we have to pay to get on the next flight we got really angry and wanted to talk with the supervisor. They had closed the chek-in earlier because they where over booked, but of course they would not addmit it. The redicilous part was that on our paper that allowed us to change to the next flight it said that we where late to the check in 1 min. that was the time he was discussing with his supervisor in the first place. We keppt on going insisting that we were in time, coz we knew we were right and finally we got on the 9:45 flight for free. So we got 1 hour later to Borakay.
So we flew to Caticlan and took a small ferry over to the actuall island. There we chacked in to a very nice hostel calle Frienz resorty with cozy bamboo huts. We left right away to explor the beach, but we mostly just walked around coz we were to burned tostay in the direct sun.
In the afternoon we were back to the hostel and meet Marcelle a super nice girl fromOhi. We got friends right away when we were searching for a ATM that would give us money instead of swallowing the card for 5 minutes and making us really afraid. In the evening we meet more people at the hostel bar and later we all meet up in a nice bar by the beach. We were quite a big group. Of course Marcelle was with us, Chris and Ben were from California and Katianna had fun with Ben and found a music mate of Chris. There was two guys from Austria, Patric and Marcus, and actually they live just 30 min from where Andy lives and I have free drinks waiting in Graz in a nightclub where Patrics brother works as an DJ :) There was also Mathias from Canada, Dario and another Chris from Germany and Shara and Rick from UK. And also the fire dancer Carla from the bar joinde us when we continued to a night club. After a lot of drinks, a really fun time, some shisha and dancing in the sea we returned back to Friendz around 4 am. Katianna with her unlucy karma manage to trip over her bed and got her second bruise of many. The first was when she got hit by a man in the boat and got a cut in her forehead.
I was supprised the next morning when my hangover was not so bad at all and after some painkillers and breakfast in Real coffee a super nice place I was feeling good. We were quite lazy so a manikyr on the beach was perfect and later we had a hour long massage. My bad weather karma was following us andit was a quite windy and cloudy day so we got back to the Friendz. We were connecting with Marcelle because she is a english teacher in Korea so we had fun talking about how we experienced Korea. Too bad I didn't know her when I was there.
In the evening we meet Riyas friends Monica and Kit. We had Indian food in a lovely place with a beautiful beach view. It was just one of those perfect by the beach places. And later we meet up with our friends from the Friedz again. We went to this famous bar called Cocomangas where the tric was to drink 15 shots and get your name on the wall. Ben and Marcus were the brave/stupid ones and did it. Ben became a dancing duracel bunny and Marcus fell asleep in the next club. Otherwise Cocomangas was a bit uncomfortable with young filipinosand older western men duing their stuff so I was happy to change to another club.
But by 1 am the Linda battery run out of juice and got back to the hostel with Marcelle. I was quite secure to leave Katianna with our new friends but no... Next morning she informed me about her trip to the local police station when her camera and mobile had got stolen while they had ha swim in the ocean. She really got the whole Borakay experience and by noon we were allready able to make jokes about it, but still it was one more bad karma unlucy ending for an otherwise fun and exelent trip.
So around 1 pm we had to return with the ferry to the airport and fly back to Manila. There we had some hours to re pack and get all our warm clothes with us because we were heading to the mountains where the temperatures dropps to about 8 degrees in the night. After a bumpy ride we arrived here to Baguio by midnight and we are staying here at Riyas place.
Today we had a slow morning and I have been filling my stomach with pancaces while writeing this. We will spend the next 4 nights here and relax and cool down after all the partying. Borakay was great and hugs to all our new friends if you get lost to this blog. I uppload photos later.
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