Went home to the Philippines last week 7th of August 2008. And here I am back to work after 20 days in UK and 4 days of vacation to Iloilo.

I already finished my first week in UK so read on the highlights of 2nd week in Marlow till the time I get home to my hometown.

Highlights:

28th of July - 03 August

July 31st, we watched Dark Knight in Empire Theater in High Wycombe and the cinema costs £5, that would be roughly 400+ in Philippine Peso, so expensive right? But anyhow we just wanted to watch the movie. Brits are so quiet in the movie house unlike us Filipinos., :).

We we’re planning to go to Paris but it’s so expensive and all we got to do will be catch trains going their and back to Marlow, so we decided to spend the weekend  2nd of August, with our Boss and went to Bicester Village, it’s an outlet shopping mall so that means they’re almost on sale and aside from that we could have the tax refund, but only portion of the 17.5% vat for non-UK citizens.

http://www.bicestervillage.com/bicester/home.asp

After shopping we went home to Glade end and Tania cooked some steak in red wine sauce, carrots and peas and mashed potato. We drank 2 bottles of red wine.

2nd of August

We went to Longleat it’s a 2 hour travel from Marlow to Longleat, our boss accompanied us to go there, we enjoyed the Safari Park, Butterfly Garden and the Longleat house itself, and it only cost £22.00. Sadly we can’t take pics with the animals hehe coz they just roam around the Safari Park so we just stayed on the car and enjoyed the sights.

Here’s the link: www.longleat.co.uk

4th - 7th of August

Last week in Marlow

4th of August - we had a review of the trainings that our boss gave us , and on our Lunch break we went to this wedding centre and I tried some wedding gowns, unfortunately we can’t snap some photos of me on a wedding dress haha, it feels so good to wear them, May, Tania and I enjoyed it.

5th of August - we asked Tania if we could do our last minute shopping in Marlow coz shops close at 5pm! We even told Tania that we should open a shop and close as late as 12mn haha that would be great!

6th of August - our last day of office, we went to Three Horses, it’s a restaurant but serves traditional English dishes, I had the classic Fish and Chips. At about 5pm we went out to cinema to watch Wall-E, nice movie. After watching, we went to ASDA and bought some pizza for dinner and drank 2 bottles of poor man’s champagne.

7th of August - Going home to the Philippines!

We left Glade End at about 9am to catch out 12:35pm flight at the Heathrow Airport, did some last minute shopping, and be ready for 14 hours flight!

8th of August 2008!!!!!

We had our connecting flight Cathay Pacific to HK then we transfered to another carrier for HK-Manila.

And worst thing happened when we landed Manila at about 9am. We found out that my luggage was not transfered to HK-MNL Cathay Pacific so that means I don’t have any luggage with me, what about all those chocolates????!

Damn I have to catch my 3pm flight to Iloilo that day as well I can’t wait for my luggage to turn up!I reported it to Cathay Pacific personnel and they promised to send it to Iloilo.

Luckily they we’re able to locate it the next day and sent it to Iloilo, since it’s a Saturday 9th of August, I asked my dad and my mom to pick up my luggage. Only one item is missing on my luggage and empty extra baggage which I kept on the front pocket of my luggage, well that’s fine at least only that item got lost not my chocs. hehe