One Saturday we woke up and realized that something is weird. It’s not a regular Saturday. Our camera bags were lying empty in a closet and alarm did not go off. And!! I’m not trying to memorize bride’s and groom’s names. You know what that means? No wedding on a Saturday :) a little bit awkward but we started to think what we could do. We asked ourselves what regular people do on their day off? Our options were to explore Vancouver downtown, visit some breweries on bikes, maybe go to North Van… Second idea was to try to sneak in to the baseball game and the last one was why not to take bikes into ‘snow white’ and drive to Seattle. Ride bikes there, got to the Crab Pot and do other touristy stuff.

No need to guess which one we picked :) Bikes laying in a car we drove a car south! We found a free parking spot which was like a miracle, because parking is ridiculously expensive :/ Anyway, we decide to make a quick ride to the park which was near where we parked and the first thing we saw - photographer was doing a glamour session for a newly weds :) So we stood there and watch how he was working, made some comments to ourselves and moved on. Seemed quite a boring shoot :O

I was actually surprised how empty downtown in Seattle was! So many lanes for bikes and it seemed like it’s only two of us riding.

We did quite a bit though! Stopped for a sushi, then rode bikes to breweries and gum wall, visited fisherman’s harbour, went to eat seafood and then we decided to go and watch a movie :) oh, and of course we took a ride in a ferris wheel. All this day was so chill. We would decide what we wanna do and would go for it. No particular plan, just ride bikes and explore.

The other thing that stuck to my head was very unique architecture. Vancouver downtown is quite boring with same style buildings, but it’s not the same in Seattle. Maybe it’s just me for the first time visiting Seattle but I really liked what I saw :)

lots of unique sculptures around downtown.

No, I didn’t leave gum on this wall ;P

Find your own road and follow it. After spending two days and doing traditional touristic stuff we got tired and rented a dirt bike to travel around El Nido and to have our own unique experience. First day we rented a little bit too late and got to enjoy it only for couple hours and a very short sunset time. Next day was way much more fun!! A full day trip to Taytay :)

So here we are on a bike heading towards a small town in Palawan. The only thing I knew about it that there is an old Spanish fort and for a small fee you can visit it. We were lucky because it was a cloudy day so we didn't get sunburn. The road was going up and down, left and right, getting closer to the water or away into the forest. We got to enjoy every little bit of it. Passing little villages next to the road, seeing kids going back from school and waving to us with the biggest smiles ever!! No smartphones in their hands just silly talks while going down the road.

One turn and it changed our ride. I think it happened in the middle of our trip when we saw an accident. The car hit a girl. She was laying down on the road and I saw a blood around her head. We stopped and some other cars stopped. I think at that moment we both realized how useless we are, we don't know any emergency phones nothing. Local people started to come around and they call ambulance. I think we watched everything for about 10min and decided to leave. I still remember how shocked I was. There was no reception for our cell phone and hospital might be 50km away... who knows... That's where I felt a huge difference between Philippines and Canada or any other poor country. People are dying because they don't get help right away.

We continued our trip in silence for a while.

The fort itself is pretty small, but if you go up it's a very nice green garden with a secret abandoned chapel. There is also a very small museum room with some exhibition. Nice little stop overall :)

That kid was there when we got on the top of the fort, stayed there for the whole time looking down and even when we were walking back he was still there.

We stopped to eat lunch at a very small place next to a bus station. Drivers already were eating there and couldn't believe that two tourists stoped at the same place to eat the SAME food as they!! They kept turning around to see if we like it or not. It was really funny;D

Our goal after trip to Taytay was to stop at Las Cabanas beach and just enjoy sunset at this nice beach. It's pretty crowded with tourists and I personally liked Nacpan beach more but we had a really nice sunset that evening :)

My dinner and delicious drink after all day was a perfect combo to finish a day :)