When I grow up and finally start writing my “novel”, I will go to the South of France just like Charlotte Rampling’s Sarah Morton in the film Swimming Pool. But instead of squatting in my publisher’s villa where I would probably end up getting involved in a murder mystery, I will stay in La Maison Pujol,…
Author: PinayTraveller
Off-travel: Goodbye, Maurice Sendak!
“I didn’t set out to make children happy, or make life better for them, or easier for them… I like them as few and far between as I do adults. Maybe a bit more more because I really don’t like adults, at all, practically.” -Maurice Sendak Maurice Sendak, best-selling author and illustrator of “Where the…
Supermoon Around the World
Last May 5, people from all over the world were treated to a spectacular lunar display as a massive full moon, dubbed the supermoon, rose into the night sky. “A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent…
London taxis, buses now sport ‘it’s more fun in PH’ ads
Re-posting this from The Philippine Daily Inquirer. Written by Tina G. Santos. Click here to see the original article. MANILA, Philippines—Philippine tourism got a boost in the United Kingdom with the rollout of 75 iconic London black cabs and double-decker buses sporting the new “It’s More Fun in the Philippines” banners. According to the Department…
Great Scots!
Less than two months before the opening of the London 2012 Olympics, hubby and I are still thinking whether to go to the UK or not. The idea actually came from hubby’s sister, Dean, who lives with her British husband Steve and their adorable baby daughter Tamsin, in Cornwall– a county some four and a…