It has been weeks of not so normal scenarios of firefighting activities at work and all I needed was a stress-relieving activity. I have tried sleeping too much on weekends just to cope up, movie marathon, treated myself with a massage and had a few bottles of beer with friends but none of them seemed to have an effect on my system. My last resort was an out of town getaway - a sweet escape from reality even just for a day or two. It was just in time that my previous manager in a company where I used to work, invited me to join with my ex-colleagues in their early summer outing.
The destination is Canigao Island in the municipality of Matalom, Leyte. There are many ways to get there (check out the internet for details) but for convenience on our side, we boarded on a ferry boat bound for Hilongos - our manager's hometown in Leyte. It's a five-hour trip from Cebu. We arrived in Hilongos port at around 5:00pm and waited for a few minutes for our manager to pick-up his family and their vehicle which would take us to Matalom in less than an hour. We dropped by the wet market of Bato, a municipality between Hilongos and Matalom, to buy some food for dinner. It was my first time to set foot in Leyte and my observation in Bato is that it has a very organized market and Leytehanons, though Bisaya, are soft-spoken.
