After our Christmas celebrations we took a trip to Puerto Galera (on Mindoro Island) for a little holiday. We travelled via the Ro-Ro (roll-on/roll-off) – a ferry that takes cars, trucks, and buses – from Batangas port. But what was supposed to be a trip of a morning lasted all day, because at the port there seemed to be some typhoon damage to their ramps and they could only use one, shared between several ferries. Why this information couldn’t be shared online so that passengers would know of the delays in advance, I don’t know…we ended up waiting about 6 hours to get on the ferry (when I did the first of these two sketches).

Then we sat on the ferry for a further 2 hours (when I did the second sketch) waiting for it to depart! You’d think, given the Philippines is a nation of more than 7,000 islands, that by now the ferry system would be efficient and well run…but no, it’s all rather haphazard.

Fri-27-Dec-2024