Jamie and Nera are going with some other members of the family to a resort on Sombrero Island. This is a tiny island, one of the 7641 which make up the nation. It must have been a terrible job counting them and I can imagine the consternation in the Office for Counting Islands when someone discovered another one and all the records have to be updated.
The island is called Sombrero because it has a hill on it and look like a sombrero when you approach it from the sea. Jamie sent me a link to a video and it was quite interesting: nothing like the resorts you might see on Hamilton Island or Oahu, much more low key and affordable for tourists who are not millionaires. Most of the tourists seem to arrive there on their own boat, which is typically a long wooden canoe shape with an outrigger.
I was interested to look at the video and discover that filipinos, like everyone else in the western world, love their action cameras and are never happier than when making short films about their mundane lives and posting them on Youtube for other sad nerds to watch.
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