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Things to Do in Belem, Portugal

By PinayTraveller on December 18, 2016

NOTE: This entry is in Tagalog. For my non-Tagalog/Filipino-speaking readers, kindly turn on your favorite web translator. Halos magwa-walong taon na nang huli akong mapadpad sa Portugal. Pero ang huling bisitang ito ay nananatiling sariwa sa aking isipan. Hindi kalabisan kung sabihing “parang kahapon lang.” Totoo. Parang kahapon lang nang maglakad ako sa Rossio […]

Budget Accommodation in Paris: Maison d’Accueil de l’Assomption

By PinayTraveller on September 16, 2014

If you’re looking for budget accommodation in Paris, consider staying with nuns! 🙂 I highly recommend the Maison d’Accueil de l’Assomption, the Motherhouse of the Assumption Sisters. This was where we checked in when we were in Paris a few months back. The hostel is actually a retreat house operated by the Assumption Sisters, a […]

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Europe | Featured | Pinaytraveller | Spain

On a Road Trip in Spain

By PinayTraveller on April 24, 2014

I can’t begin to describe to you just how tired I am. Since touching down in Barcelona two days ago, my team and I haven’t stopped walking. Okay, that just sounds silly. Of course we have stopped walking for meals and for sleep. But it FEELS as if we have been perpetually putting one foot […]

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Camino de Santiago | Europe | Featured | Spain

Tren Al Andalus: The Palace on Wheels

By PinayTraveller on August 7, 2013

I wake up to a room that looks completely foreign, save for the familiar suitcase standing against the wall. The ceiling is low, and the walls are covered in glossy wood. Everything around me looks plush. I am suddenly filled with dread, as if the walls are closing in on me and that […]

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Getting Inked by Whang Od

By PinayTraveller on June 3, 2013

My husband and I wake up at six in the morning, still a little groggy from last night’s wedding eve party. We are up in the small village of Buscalan in the Cordillera mountains. Weddings here are celebrated for two consecutive days and last night, it seemed that the whole village joined the revelry […]

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