You know you have had a good night when you wake up with random bruises!

Feeling a little weary this morning as had a belated birthday celebration last night. My lovely friend Jana organised everything- she found a great Japanese restaurant, decked it out with candles and invited along a group of wonderful people who spoiled me with pressies. Lots of scrummy food and many beers later we left the restaurant to meet up with “the Spanish mafia” (that’s what I have dubbed the Spanish crew of volunteers) at a nearby pub. I stepped out of the taxi and stumbled straight into a gaping hole in the road...disappearing footpaths and random holes in roads are quite a common thing here in Manila. So now have a nice set of bruises; one for each knee. Didn’t hurt at all last night- think that may have been due to the beer?!