Manila Icecream

You know that layer of grime that you get if you spend a day wandering around London? Well in Manila you can see it forming; it's like you're wearing a wetsuit.

I wasn't going to come to Manila, I'd heard all kinds of rumours, the whole "it's so sleazy it would make Bangkok blush" thing. It's not. Well it is but it's sleazy in a tongue-in-cheek way rather than an in-your-face way (and I completely appreciate that I'm making light of a whole host of other really rather serious social issues by saying that). It's pretty much how I'd thought Bangkok would be.

Took a break from the city yesterday, I went to Mount Taal to see the crater lake within the crater lake (you know, just climbing another active volcano, yawn).