Perhaps one of the highlights of my trip to Europe last year was the unexpected, albeit very profound visit to La Scala Sancta or The Holy Stairs in Rome. My group had no scheduled tour that afternoon so we had time to go sightseeing around Rome. We ended up at La Scala Sancta, located in…
*PT Note: Another funny article from my friend Divine Love Salvador. I’m re-posting it here, but for more of her culinary adventures, visit her blog at Bogchi ni Bochog. BIKES, BEEF SOUP, AND THE BALINGKINITAN RATIO: Ho Chi Minh and the Concept of Scale In Vietnam, balingkinitan seems to be the norm. In…
PT Note: The following is an essay written by my friend, fellow pinay traveller Divine Love Salvador. If you want to read more of her hilarious and sumptuous adventures, you can visit her blog at Bogchi ni Bochog [http://bogchinibochog.blogspot.com] BIG AS A BOULDER, LIGHT AS A FEATHER By Bochog Husgado. From the root Tagalog word,…
On the Road… day 15, at a gas station, an hour away from Paris “Can I offer you coffee?” A, our Portuguese driver, asks me good-naturedly.It’s been a long day and nobody deserves these much-needed gas station breaks more than him. He’s been driving his bus for a couple of hours now and had to…