Articles tagged with: Port Barton
Palawan Motorbike Trip 010
Our first stop was an unusual one. It consisted of a very small collection of huts on a tiny beach. No one on the boat spoke English, so I spent most of the day just guessing what we were doing and why we were doing it. This place didn’t seem large enough to need any bread deliveries. And Jack-Jack said something about this being where …
Palawan Motorbike Trip 004
Saturday February 13, 2010
Nagtabon, Palawan
To set the stage, I’m sitting on the front verandah of my perfect little bungalow on my perfect beach. Coconut trees towering overhead. Beautiful white sand. Waves crashing on the shore. A bowl of rice and a complete fish on a plate for breakfast – served to me on my verandah with the usual starving puppy begging for scraps. I was …
Palawan Bike Trip 014
Saturday March 29
My body never seems to stop adjusting on this trip. It’s been three weeks, and I’m still getting used to being away from my desk and out in the sun. It started out with that horrible heat rash. It seemed to take forever to go away and it kept moving around my body as new areas had to learn all over again how …
Palawan Bike Trip 013
Tuesday March 25
It is 7:30 in the morning and I’m sitting at the famous Art Café and Boutique in El Nido enjoying a cup of coffee. It is supposed to be the best place in El Nido to get organized for onward travel and for tours around El Nido. I don’t know about that, but it definitely has the best coffee and bread on Palawan. …
Palawan Bike Trip 012
Monday March 24 – El Nido
The day passed wonderfully in Taytay. I simply couldn’t get enough of the views from the Casa Rosa and of just walking around taking pictures. The weather couldn’t have been nicer as well – just the right mix of sun and cloud.
I ran into Ed at one point and we met up later in the day at Casa Rosa for …
Palawan Bike Trip 008
Monday, March 17
I thought I might be on the road by this time, but I’m still in Port Barton. I’m going to spend at least another day here before moving on. There seemed no compelling reason to move, and it’s a pleasant, quiet place. I wanted to have a day for just reading and doing nothing.
That’s not to say that the days till now have …
Palawan Bike Trip 007
Sunday, March 16
It’s breakfast time once more at Ysobel’s. Their breakfasts aren’t very economical at 160 pesos. One can get a much better and bigger breakfast for less somewhere else, but it does have the advantage of being just downstairs from my penthouse, so here I am. Even here, though, their coffee consists of a slim package of Nescafe instant coffee. The one improvement on …
Palawan Bike Trip 006
Saturday March 15
It’s eight in the morning and I’m living the life of a privileged beach bum. I slept long and hard and just recently rolled out of bed. I’m now having a cup of coffee in the quite luxurious restaurant of this resort.
I use the word “luxurious” in a relative sense here. It’s luxurious only in comparison to the other places I’ve seen along …