May 24, 2010
In praise of the Philippines
Like virtually everybody else in the UK outside the nursing profession, I knew next to nothing about the Philippines. Then I went on a diving holiday in the Philippines - a chain of around 7,000 beautiful islands and the Republic is the only predominantly Christian country in Asia. I had landed in paradise - [...]
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