Bit of a rubbish travelling day for David considering it’s his birthday! Very difficult to make it special when we were catching public transport all day to the next place, lapu lapu. It started with very busy ferry terminal, and no animal xraying this time. I sat and flew through my diving theory as once again, after backing out a few days ago, I have decided to go ahead and join David on the padi course. He has (finally) been writing the blog the last couple of days so I can get the reading done.
Once back in cebu it was a public bus to a mall, attempted to get David some eyes drops because for some reason his eye has become swollen and bloodshot. Frustratingly, but also very impressively, they would only give him moisturising drops, as they have started a antibiotic awareness…. I’m Impressed!
We attempted to get on a makeshift bus to our final location maribago, a couple of locals tried to help us find a bus but in they end they said it was too difficult to get to and advised a taxi. Taxi it was.
The taxi took us to a marina with hundreds of dive shops. Diving must be the main attraction to this place. We couldn’t find our dive shop and I was getting impatient because I had to get a doctor to sign paperwork to allow me to dive, the doctor back at home failed to get the documents done in time which meant I had to visit a doctor here, and probably a hefty price! It was getting to 4pm on a Saturday and we had no idea where to get this done, it was also the divers day off!! Luckily they replied to an email informing me the doctors is 600m away.
After asking strange questions like ‘are your legs strong?’, and listening to my chest with what seemed like a toy stethoscope, the doctor signed it for a fee of £10.
Phew
It was now time to chill out and concentrate on celebrating David’s birthday! We spent a short time browsing the shops and stalls ; he also got a thresher shark keyring to remember the diving he was about to do for his birthday, and a chocolate cupcake with crazy icing.
That night we put some nicer clothes on, David even cracked out his tailored shirt from Hoi An and we went to a local pizza place for a huge meal. Unfortunately we couldn’t have a cocktail because of diving but we made up for it in pizza!!
Final few (soft) drinks in a final bar before hitting the sack, I fancied a coffee but they completely ruined it by putting spices like nutmeg in it.
Undrinkable.
South East Asia 2019 