Sounds great. Earn some serious cash in the UK and take two week trips from time to time. It's nice that the Sterling is starting to strengthen too.
I just spent two weeks in Cebu and had a fantastic time. I met this lovely 21 year old on the internet on my second day and traveled around with her - I didn't do any preparation before that (stupid, but it worked out well). She was the only girl I hung out with as I'm not big on lining up a huge amount of options. I just find the whole thing too exhausting and feel guilty messing people around. If I meet someone I like, I just go with it. She spoke good English, read newspapers and English novels (this is very very rare from my experience, in fact it's the first time I've come across this) and she was in the last year of her degree. She was also 5ft4, which is quite tall there. I was incredibly lucky. There was a moment on Camotes Island when I was lying next to my pretty, intelligent friend in out little air conditioned villa where I felt like I could have been dreaming. I'm 50 and not really handsome (not fat though!) so I never take such moments for granted, god no.
I've returned to Australia pretty happy, thanks to going abroad. I am fortunate in that I earn good money and flights to Asia are cheap. I'm starting to think that two weeks away here and there is all I need to recharge my batteries.
BTW, I would highly recommend a visit to Camotes Island if you're ever in Cebu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camotes_Islands. Fun fact: A plate of calamari costs just 70ph in Camotes but in the TGIF Restaurant in Cebu City it costs 390 ph. Crazy.
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