Birthday Bash

That time of the year again, Rose made me a yummy cake and i celebrated with the family and a couple of friends. Dean bought me some nice jewellery.

The Philippines Trip # 2

Well on this trip we spent most of our time in the city shopping, though we still made time to visit the citiy sites, like old Intramourous, cathedrals and gardens. As well as a visit to some of Manilas poorest slums, as seen above, this ones called smokey mountain as its right by the cities rubbish dumb.

Here we are at the main park in Manila, and on the old city walls

After Rosie left, I spent alot of time in Pitas apartment and visiting him at work in the office.


Manila was settled by the spanish and we could see their influence in the old city.

Mum and Dad visit Taiwan

Toroko Gorge was pretty impressive, but the mess mum and dad made when they arrived wasnt.

Bamboo Forests and a mandatory stop at sun moon lake, made for a nice afternoon


Giant statues of Buddha and some other God, i dont mean to be ignorant i just cant remember who it was.

The highlight of the trip for dad was typhoon talim, but we didnt let it interfere with our shopping

Beautiful Sun Moon Lake.

The Best Summer Ever - Kenting Taiwan

The canal Early in the Morning, we eventually had to leave as rose was waiting back at the hotel

Rose and I at the night markets. That day i spent a little to long in the sun, you can tell by my whiteness that i wasnt use to it.

Dean, Rose and I had the best summer ever in Taiwan, we hired scooters, hung out on the Beach, checked out the local market. It was a bit of a mission finding accomodation, but eventually someone rented us a room in their house.

First chance we get we will all be back in Taiwan for another summer holiday.

The water was so warm, much different from the cool water im use to in good old N.Z. The Banana boat, i dont know how dean and rose convinced me to go out on this thing, but in the end it was a lot of fun.

You never know what to expect when the cameras on self timer.

We took ourselves on a little adventure around the coastline and managed to make it to the southern most tip of Taiwan, it was very beautiful.