What Happened to MANILA?! This Is Not The Same As Before

say good morning to the camera ready yeah got set free good morning guys welcome to another video this is our second day here in Manila we're staying in uptown area and I'm starting the Vlog with two questions for you guys because I need some help and I think you guys are the perfect people to help me as you may or may or not know my dad and stepmom are flying out to vanilla in a matter of days and we're going to be picking them up from the airport my first question is where is the best place to park slash pick them up from because we're going to need to park and then I think leave the car and then go and meet them at the arrivals area we won't be able to just like stop in the car because they're not going to have a SIM card to tell us when they actually get through immigration and baggage collection so where is the best place for us to actually meet them and if anyone's got any tips on like the best place to park and the best area to be in I mean it's hard to know how long they're going to take to get through that area cuz sometimes it's super fast sometimes it's pretty slow cuz it's very busy uh so I think we're going to have to just get there quite early and just wait maybe we'll get some food or something while we wait for them second question I would like to make them a kind of Welcome to the Philippines starter pack so I've already got in my mind to give them off lotion because I've told them that it's better to have like the local mosquito of Helen instead of like the ones that you sell in the UK I'm trying to think what else so I want to get them like some local snacks like some typical snacks I'm thinking like stuff you've seen in a 7-Eleven maybe like a packet of dingdong maybe some like Pon stuff that like isn't perishable things that can just be packaged up and then they can take around with them in the suitcase um so it doesn't need to be like something fresh I might go to a bakery and get them some like I saw some like U butter cookies like that's a cool Philippines flavor that I want them to try like U isn't really a thing in England but it isn't a thing in England so if you can comment below like a few things that you would put in this starter pack then that would be really helpful because in the next few days I'm going to like get it all together this video will be live before they arve so I can read the comments and hopefully get some inspiration from you guys because that' be super helpful now project um get used to the time zone isn't going that well we woke up at 11:00 a.m. again today and we were meant to wake up earlier than that and it didn't happen and Koda was awake from Midnight until 4:00 a.m. last night so George and I only fell asleep at 4:00 a.m. which isn't great so hopefully in a few days we'll be adjusted but this is why we flew out before then so we can get used to the time difference of Koda and then as soon as we're on the trip we can just like ease into it and be like already a climatized to the time but saying that I'm not actually finding it very hot I'm a bit confused I thought this was meant to be Philippine summer and I mean it's not that hot I'm not needing to be in air conditioning right now I mean I'm only in a bikini so maybe maybe that's why but I just I don't feel like I particularly need to like hide from the sun right now which is I didn't expect at all but anyway here we are but yeah plans today are get ready for our little road trip we've got coming up tomorrow we're leaving Manila for a few days um before we come and collect my dad and set mom so I I need to at some point head out to the shops and stock up on a couple of things we've got most stuff we need but there's like two or three things I need to grab before hitting the road and we are heading south that's all I'm going to say for now and like George said in another video we did hire a car and it's pretty massive so it's quite funny we will show you that in the next Vlog and we'll give you a full full car tour um yeah super excited for this little trip we've got and then we'll be back in time to collect and from the airport in a couple of days [Music] and a proper hello guys from a very colorful George this morning gone for purple today and I've gone for blue and cod's gone for green we don't tell each other we are incredibly uh colorful today I these are some of my new t-shirts I bought for this trip and I've never for the last maybe I don't know 5 six seven eight years I haven't really worn colors maybe we're starting to get back into colors I don't know but anyway proper helloo hope you're all doing well thank you so much for all the love the first Vlog for us so the Vlog where we landed in Manila that has just gone live for us today as I'm filming this and already I'm seeing comments and likes flood in over a thousand of you have watched the Vlog already and there are so many comments saying how excited you are for this trip welcome to the Philippines thank you for longer Vlogs so a lot of you guys are enjoying the longer Vlogs so we'll keep those up load of you loving like koder and saying he's Chang and he's grown and he was so cute on the plane stuff so thank you thank you for all the love and support on that Vlog I think I think wants to head out do you want to go are you getting our shoes ready whose shoes are they but D wear it Daddy wear it is absolutely like shark shoes they your Beach shoes we are going to head out we're going to go to Uptown Mall um we've had some breakfast Lucy cooked us beautiful steak um steak egg eggs and what do we have sour toast avocado really really tasty toast avocado toast yes avoc avocado toast you had some scrambled egg didn't you you going see ice do you like egg yeah what did you have for breakfast egg egg how many eggs one just one yeah okay yeah you think you did have about one egg didn't you so yeah can head out now we've been for a swim this morning now it's the afternoon we had some coffee and just really feel settled in and just as we feel settled in tomorrow we actually leave on a little road trip it's feeling normal that we're here again already and the first day or so I'm even losing track this is only really the second proper day kind of Third Day technically but second full day to figure out where we are we're adjusting a little bit more to the time zone now although Koda still went to sleep at 4:00 a.m. last night so um but we did get enough sleep still we woke up in the morning not the afternoon Improvement what are you doing mate you got sharks on your hands can you show the camera wow wake up I got around here have a look I got eyes I got eyes he's smelling the flowers oh not very many flowers are there they smell nice yeah I think he's going to be a gardener definitely he's very into foilage foliage folage right come on then darling let's go to the mall was it foliage forer no not forer can you see that big water he's having a dance break Daddy he dancing you see it yeah we're going to go and see the water let's go tell Daddy still red still red is it going green now is it green is it green it's green yeah go [Music] [Music] then time with the dragun eat egg this a track and eat egg big jump good boy right let's find this [Music] water today to and try it wow a you done about most cookies I know I walk PES yesterday and I nearly got some oh man these if you've never had Mo cookies you have to try they're so so good we used to in the old original apartment we used to order they deliver them they can deliver on grab I think it is and we used to just get like 20 cookies delivered to the old apartment on like a weekly basis I want to say just walking around the shopping mall now noticed that there's a lot less oh there one there but there's a lot less mask wearing this time around I remember on the last trip we were still surprised at how many people were still wearing masks because in the UK it's like zero now not like none at all if you see someone wearing a mask in the UK now it like really stands out cuz you're just not used to seeing anymore but the last time we came here there were still a lot of people I'd say maybe even like as much as 20 or 30% but now I would say it's like 5% three 3 or 4% even less maybe there really aren't many people wearing so um yeah just interesting to kind of document that and acknowledge that cuz it all started for us we were here we were we were in Manila when all of that started in 2020 kind of feels like yesterday kind of feels like a different lifetime how nice is this really nice very busy again I love this rooftop there's a cool camera store up here I think from Henry's Henry's cameras used to come up here to buy some camera gear before road trips and things beautiful love this kind of mid to late afternoon atmosphere Sun's a little bit lower that golden hour lighting kind of comes in it's a little breeze in the air super [Music] nice I want to get to close going to get it right now hi D you want this one match this is like coffee I don't think you can really have it it's mommy's green drink [Music] coffee sorry darling it's for it's for grownups you just smell smell you smell it smell [Music] it thank you daring you tried a little bit Yeah brilliant lovely bit of caffeine so went for a less sweet Frozen Machel late very good expensive right $2.95 that's like £450 which I mean it's a very high quality ingredients and like I've really like this place the match to Tokyo it's really good I feel like things have become more expensive this time like even the grocery shop yesterday I feel like the things I was picking up I got like a few bits and it came to like 3,000 pesos and normally I I don't know in my head that would be for the amount of stuff I got I feel like it would have cost less I don't know if anyone can tell me if price have gone up I went to Wildflower earlier for coffee you'll find out the end of that story later when George can come back K's gone off again but even the SIM cards at the airport the the one we normally get is, 1500 pesos for 30 days unlimited internet this time it was 2,000 so 500 pesos more so like a 33% increase like a third more expensive I don't know maybe I mean like the cost of living thing in the UK everything has gone up in price I guess it's maybe a worldwide thing and prices obviously do go up but what were you saying about Wildflower uh two coffees earlier yeah were nearly 500 pesos so I thought that was just for like regular c as well it wasn't anything crazy no not adding anything on wow um something yesterday we said oh the SIM cards at the airport yeah I just said that yeah they were expensive but sign of it's not 2019 anymore that's true George it's not some of our friends ask us like when we a lot of our friends from the UK have never been to the Philippines or never been to Asia they say why do you why do you guys go to the Philippines so much is it like is it really cheap out there and you can go and cuz you spend so long there take coffe and we're like no that's not the really the I mean yes and no because can you hold this my arm I'm sorry yeah I've got him my arm obviously in BGC sorry guys fix my hair while I got some nice lighting from araba we are going to pick up a coffee in a minute before we go so don't let me forget comment below uh remind me to pick up my coffee thank you so yeah we kind of explain to our friends that yes the Philippines can be cheap because I think a lot of people from the UK if they go on or traveling travel to Asia they maybe go to Thailand Vietnam something like that it can be cheaper in Thailand definitely can be cheaper in Vietnam and it yes it can be cheaper in the Philippines we try and explain to them that out of the kind of BGC bubble the islands and the provinces it is cheaper you can pick up you also have to know where to go because we were in the last time we were in I think it was Sabu on the last trip outside of the resort there was like some vendors on the street selling fruits and stuff we noticed that the fruit there was about double the price than it would have been if we'd walked another 5 minutes down the road into a more kind of local area so you just have to kind of be aware of that when you are traveling and seek out the deals seek out the uh the good value spots and also know that if you're coming to like a main city like any main city is going to be a little bit more expensive speaking of things getting more expensive in Manila this toy I was thinking that's really nice probably couldn't get it home but L said no don't worry it's £200 I mean it is amazing it's quite cool I don't know 00 cool I pay like £60 for that cuz it's like wooden it's made handmade probably 30 12,000 [Music] pesos [Music] hi [Music] I don't know where we just walked into this place is crazy we were last in an arcade like this in where was it I think going to get out I think quala lumper when we were traveling in Malaysia before I didn't know this mall had this but um yeah's loving it yeah want to go in that one hold on then hold on wa go that one wao is that good [Music] yeah [Music] such a cool view here at night looking over the Uptown area I just had a very good workout in the gym I'm actually kind of shaking I don't think I've eaten quite enough today um but yeah pretty good gym not loads of stuff in there it's a big open space um there wasn't actually that much equipment but I tried to film a bit of the workout but it was so busy I didn't just want to like film other people working out so just showed you a little bit of it but yeah feeling good normally on these trips George and I gym every other day um like each so it be every day one of us would go and it just means that if we're a bit tight for time or if we're traveling we only have to make time for one person to go CU obviously someone else has to stay of coder whether whether Cod is asleep napping um or like playing in the room or whatever it means that we still get to go like regularly but there's no pressure to go like every day or like figure out schedule it's just always every other day which is good but it's been a good day I feel a little bit more on top of things yesterday was a bit crazy because it was our first proper day and it felt like we were just like scrambling around trying to figure everything out today is a bit more chill um and I feel a bit more adjusted I don't feel too tired Coda napped at good times today so fingers crossed tonight is better it normally takes maybe 4 days for him to startop waking up through the night again so obviously we we're changing his whole body clock so it's really hard um to figure out timings for naps and stuff and often we have to like cap naps in the day so that he doesn't sleep for too long thinking it's his nighttime sleep and then not sleep at night so it's um it's quite complicated it's quite confusing but we're getting there we're getting closer to it being back to normal and then tomorrow we're checking out of Hera Haven um which as you guys know is Kim and Tom's Airbnb that we're staying in and then we're hitting the road and we're going somewhere really exciting for a few days so very much looking forward to that it's so bizarre this time I feel like I'm seeing Manilla in a new light because Everywhere I Go Everywhere I look at people I me the things I see all I'm doing is imagining my dad and stepmom seeing it because normally it's like very much our bubble we're in and we're just doing it for us and we're looking around for us obviously vlogging it but soon they're going to be walking around BTC with us which I just can't wrap my head around and it it it's just so crazy I don't know if anyone can relate if anyone's ever like moved away and then had family visit the place they moved away um because no one we know from England has ever been here uh like friends and family wise that we haven't met here anyway sort of like obviously we know people from England that have come here but I mean people that have only come because of us so it's really surreal I'm really looking forward to it but it's definitely making me look at this place in a new light and I'm sort of for example we eat a really good bit of food I'm like oh we have to take them here or if we have like a funny interaction with someone I'm like oh I wonder what what they would have made of that would they have sort of joined in with the joke and like everything we're doing I'm just thinking about how they're going to react as well so I'm just so excited and I I know a lot of people liked when we first came to the Philippines seeing our first reaction to things and I'm now fully understanding that more because I'm now going to see their first reaction to everything here the food the people the places the beaches the boat trips the hotels the hospitality the warmth the language like there's so much to it that we've just gotten used to I suppose now because we've been here so many times but they're going to experience it fresh so I can't wait and I think you guys are excited for the Vlogs too we've had a lot of people saying on the Vlog where are they I thought they were coming with you um but like we said we need to get used to the time zone so that we can hop around fast with them we've got a big itinery we've got like one night STS two night STS three night stays with them um so we're trying to cram in as much of the Philippines as we can in 2 weeks so yeah we're getting used to the time zones and then as soon as they land it's go time guys it's literally go time we have one full day in BGC with them and then we're heading straight off to an island so very excited but anyway I'm going to head back to the room now see what George and coder are up to but I think I might end this video here because I feel like it's a good good time to end it and I feel like we always end it in the room so why not end it here I'm currently leaning on a children's slide you weren't expecting that were you unless you saw it in the reflection then you probably W expecting it but please give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it subscribe if you're new and make sure you follow our Instagram Pages below um I feel like this has been a rambly clip and I've spoken very fast again so sorry about that feel free to watch it on like 0.5 times speed if I speak too fast oh dear I can't help it it's just the way I am but anyway thank you so much for watching and we'll see you very soon in the next juicy Vlog [Music] goodbye moment to Aral