Going to Boracay used to be my favorite respite from work. This was back when I was still single and the island was not so crowded in the summer. Since my hometown is only a few kilometers away from Caticlan, my family and I would go there on day trips already in our swimwear and […]
Over the years, Aklan the mainland has been overshadowed by its most popular tourist destination, Boracay Island. But aside from its powdery white beach, Aklan has a lot more to offer. Take, for instance, its cold springs. Hurom-Hurom is one of the cold spring resorts in Nabas, Aklan. The main pool is actually a basin […]
If you want to know me (really, REALLY know me), you must step inside my home in Aslum. Maybe then you will be able to understand why I yearn for home more often than what is probably normal. A place surrounded by water, it stands between the Aslum River and the big blue sea. It […]
Over the Holy Week, Hubby and I travelled to Aklan with our two brothers, my mother-in-law, and our four-year-old nephew Dmitry, or Mushroom as he is lovingly called by our family. It was Mushroom’s first time to ‘ride a big white boat’ aptly called St. Ignatius of Loyola (the patron saint of Ateneo where Hubby […]
This week’s Travel Advisory comes from the travel writer and editor, Caskie Stinnett. Mr. Stinnett, whose stories appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Travel & Leisure, The Saturday Evening Post and The Ladies’ Home Journal, claimed he traveled a lot because he didn’t want his life “disrupted by routine.” If you notice, I’ve borrowed Mr. Stinnett’s famous […]