Infatuated as I was with Barcelona’s Christmas street, there’s really no place like home. And nothing compares to the joy I feel whenever I visit Manila’s very own Christmas street– the mecca of craft/home-decor bargain-hunters– Dapitan Shopping Arcade or simply, Dapitan. I recently visited Dapitan with my fellow Dapitan pilgrim, Nanay. We braved the Sunday…
Hotel Unizo’s Royal Garden Cafe serves three types of breakfast, all equally pleasing to the palette and delightful to the eyes. The first (and my favorite) is the traditional Japanese set. The set consists of grilled salmon.. miso soup… cold tofu… and pickled seaweed. Of course, there’s bottomless coffee and orange juice. Then there’s American…
I’ll start my Japan series with a quick review of my hotel. Please note that this is not a paid review. Being away from home sometimes takes its toll even on the most enthusiastic travellers (such as myself). Travel anxieties like homesickness, loneliness, and even insecurity can occur at any point of one’s trip. But…
I had the chance to travel to Tokyo, Japan last week to attend the Japan Prize International Contest for Educational Media. It was all at once exciting, exhilarating and nerve-wracking to be in such a beautiful and vibrant city. Needless to say, I was filled with mixed emotions the whole time because I was both …
I have three words for Number Twenty: surot (bedbugs) sungit (rude) ingay (noise) This hostel is a good concept that failed in execution. It may be very cheap, but then again, you get what you pay for. It’s easy to get drawn to its seemingly perfect, Ikea-furnished interior but it’s a whole different story when…