2nd. May 2000

Written: Tuesday, 2 May 2000

Hi all:

This is a rather fast follow-up to the last newsletter since I found that I'd forgotten a couple of things!

* The Weather

- No real change from last week - hot, sticky and not much wind. Summer has arrived!

* Activities

- Seaquest are running an IDC in Moalboal starting on 10th. May; Mario Tapales is the Course Director. For information please have a look at the Seaquest page:

http://www.sequest.com

- Cakes & Connections has now closed as a cafe however we will still offer e-mail and Internet access until the end of May. If you want any special birthday cakes or whatever, Regula *may* bake if you ask her nicely (or she may not!!).

- For the local recipients of this newsletter, the first part of the Cakes & Connections sale has finished. Some items do remain, notably the computers, so if anyone wishes to make an offer for any individual item then please call in to see what exactly we have left.

* Social . . . .

- Happy birthday to Kimberly, Jochen's middle child who was four last Saturday. She's growing up fast and has been extra privileged because she was the recipient of the last, official "Cakes & Connections" birthday cake! I'm sure that she'll look back on her cake in years to come with wonder and admiration. Or maybe not!

- For a change someone leaving Moalboal. Stephane "Le Duck" Cannard left to take up a job in Bohol last week. we're sorry to see him go and hope that he'll remember us over here. There are a few other "Moalboal" people over there though to keep him company, including bald Martin, Ronald & Galina and of course Giso. We hope that things go well for him.

* Internet

- I have reorganised the "Accommodation" page on the Moalboal site to group places together with others in approximately the same price category. I hope that this will give people a better idea of what they are looking at when they see a place listed. If anyone has any comments, please let me know. Follow the Accommodation link from our home page.

- I will write one more newsletter before leaving Moalboal at the end of the month. After that the newsletter may or may not continue depending on whether anyone reasonably independent is willing to take it over. Any volunteers please call in to see me fairly soon! If no- one takes over the mailing list I will delete it from the list server - there will be no need to unsubscribe, the list will just disappear.

- As for the Moalboal page, this will remain up though the address will certainly change. One local person is interested in taking it over but he is not prepared to subsidise it with any money (as we have for the past two years) and so he will need some donations to cover the running costs. Presently this amount to US$18 per month, though it could perhaps be reduced a little. If anyone is willing to donate a few pesos every month to keep up what is the best (only?) independent guide to Moalboal and area, please write or call in to see me and I'll put you in touch with the right person.

* General

If anyone has any information that they think would be interesting for people on this list, please do let me know and I will add it in.

You may check the list web site - http://moalboal.listbot.com - to have a look at the message archives for this list or to subscribe and unsubscribe from this list.

You will find some of this information repeated on the "What's New" page of the Moalboal web site. I try to update this page every week or so rather than the every four weeks of this list, so keep an eye on the page. You can mark it with web-monitoring software which will mail you when the page changes. We don't have any adverts on our site so if it changes, it's because information on or the layout of the page(s) have been changed, not because an advert has changed!

Best regards,

Simon Wright.