understanding how I travel
For some time I’ve reflected on needs I’ve already identified to travel more slowly and with less baggage. But having spent a great deal of time over the past few weeks trying to devise an itinerary for 30 days in the Philippines I’ve learnt a lot more. I’ll be spending the month with a friend, who asked if she could join me there but then said she did not have the energy at that time to do any of the planning (the Philippines being made up of some 7,000 islands and thus not a place where you can casually just get on buses to travel around but rather one where you have to book seats on flights, ferries, etc). So I got to work, spending many days researching places to go and how to get to them, and came up with a whole list of ideas to fit into an itinerary. I shared this with my friend, who responded that she doesn’t do early morning starts doesn’t do hostel dorms but needs her own room doesn’t do long distance bus trips (by which she seems to mean anything more than three hours) bu