Last August, I wrote about how I missed a talk by Australian professor and Camino guide Marc Grossman, lamenting how frustrated I was that I missed it and how going to this pilgrimage is really a lifelong dream of mine. So imagine my delight when four months later, on Christmas Eve last […]
Here’s Budget Travel Magazine’s Top Budget Destinations for 2011. Manila didn’t make it to the list but my favorite city, Lisbon, did. Here’s an excerpt. We analyzed a year’s worth of news, trends, and statistics to identify the world’s best value destinations for 2011. From China to our own backyard, here are ten places that […]
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 […]
The Boots “Oh no, you’re not!” Left Foot screams as I look at the pair of boots with disdain apprehension. “You are definitely not going to wear that,” agrees Right Foot. But what can I do? I arrived in Barcelona totally unprepared for the cold. The weather guides all over cyberspace agreed that it wasn’t […]