Ibajay’s Market Day on Tuesdays is a big affair. People from the municipality’s thirty five barangays flock to the Public Market to shop. From fresh produce to second hand clothes, the market is filled with various commodities sold by vendors from nearby towns. It’s really quite an experience to be in the middle of it […]
Going to Boracay used to be my favorite respite from work. This was back when I was still single and the island was not so crowded in the summer. Since my hometown is only a few kilometers away from Caticlan, my family and I would go there on day trips already in our swimwear and […]
Over the years, Aklan the mainland has been overshadowed by its most popular tourist destination, Boracay Island. But aside from its powdery white beach, Aklan has a lot more to offer. Take, for instance, its cold springs. Hurom-Hurom is one of the cold spring resorts in Nabas, Aklan. The main pool is actually a basin […]
If you want to know me (really, REALLY know me), you must step inside my home in Aslum. Maybe then you will be able to understand why I yearn for home more often than what is probably normal. A place surrounded by water, it stands between the Aslum River and the big blue sea. It […]
Over the Holy Week, Hubby and I travelled to Aklan with our two brothers, my mother-in-law, and our four-year-old nephew Dmitry, or Mushroom as he is lovingly called by our family. It was Mushroom’s first time to ‘ride a big white boat’ aptly called St. Ignatius of Loyola (the patron saint of Ateneo where Hubby […]