Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
It had a wild-west feel to it in the early days Jim,I first went there when Ermita was in full flow just before Mayor Lim stamped down hard and turned Del Pilar and its environs into a virtual ghost town I thought I was indestructable back then,you know what kids are like,no sense of mortality,I had a bit of an accident a few years later on the Afghanistan/pakistan border and realised just how fragile we are But pinas in 1990 was rough,I used to do "Back-door" night crossings with a few Badjao and tausug friends to Sabah,ferrying Illegal pinoys over to work in the logging camps and bringing duty free goods back to Pinas through Sitangkai,funny times
Pinoy Rastas?I met a good number,as you said good life for a kid,some of them go up to the cordilleras,sagada especially,buy cheap keys of grass and sell it to the puti on Boracay,Jah rastafari
Funny country,gets under the skin ringworm
You've had a colourful life Tawi

I've not seen the dealing but I know it goes on, something to keep well away from when you are a puti foreigner.

Yeah "wild west" was kind of the way my friends described it back then

By the way Mayor Lim got back in again the other year and cracked down on Manila's Baywalk nightspot, this time he killed off all the businesses along the waterfront, it's now back to being a scary place where you would not walk at night.

It was getting a bit too touristy but it was a nice place to eat on a Sunday night and easy for us to take the family to as it was close to where we lived in P. Ocompo.

As you say though, it gets right under your skin


Jim