So I just got back from Aklan and let me tell you, that trip just added to the ten thousand posts that I need to start writing ASAP. I know, I know… my mountain of backlog is just piling up! Bad blogger. Bad, bad blogger! Seriously, it was such a wonderful and refreshing trip that…
We interrupt the Barcelona series with this important news: my 2011 travel calendar officially begins today. Yup! I’m going home to Aklan with Hubby and my brother for a five-day holiday to visit our parents and to take part in the Ati-Atihan Festival. Ati-Atihan is the liveliest and most fun (or do you say ‘the…
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…
Seriously. I mean if you’ve recently lost your job or have broken up with your long-time girlfriend and would like to start a new life, why not fly all the way here to the Pearl of the Orient and become, well, taxi drivers?! That’s exactly what American dudes Turock and Jason did. They’ve uploaded their…
Last weekend, a friend asked me to become a stakeholder of Good Food Co. Good Food Co. is a very interesting initiative and I feel that it deserves attention. It’s based on the concept of community shared agriculture. In their words: Community Shared Agriculture is a system that helps build relationships between the farmers and…