We really fell for this place...

The main road into town is unpaved for the last 20 km adding nearly an hour to the three hour journey time to the Palawan capital Puerta Princessa. The town is set on a large beach. Offseason the town was quietly ticking with thirty something packers looking for somewhere off the usual trail.

We met Doris at Easy dive and went diving with her divemaster Ronnie who was great. Doris invited us over and we heard her story how she cajoled her long haul trucking husband out of his comfortable cab to leave Germany for uncertain lands to set up a dive shop despite his fear of water. 

We assembled most evenings at the "Hideaway Bar" where Garry would serve up some wicked rum concoctions.

We met a British New Zealand couple who were taking a six month career break from an exhausting TV production job to tour Asia to catch their lives back. She had

We met a French and Swiss cool thirty something "nomads" online working round the world but with no chance of getting anything done in this town with bandwidth as it was.

We also met a couple of South Africans teaching english in Vietnam  on long school holidays who seemed to be making work life balance a profession.

Best of all was a Brazilian couple who have set up a travel lodge with another partner and have agreed to work 6 months on 6 months off.