The Hubby and I have been travelling together around the Philippines and Southeast Asia for the past twelve years. But individually, we have been travelling on our own way before we even met. So you can say it wasn’t easy adjusting to a ‘permanent’ travel partner as we have our own travel styles. But through […]
Hubby and I are going on our annual holiday at the end of the month. Our main destination, the magnificent 9th century Buddhist monument called Borobudur in Central Java, Indonesia. To get there, we will first fly to Jakarta, then take a connecting flight to Yogyakarta which is the gateway to Borobudur. The plan is […]
*This article was written before Cardinal Chito Tagle was elevated to the College of Cardinals. I have been privileged to travel with the good Cardinal Luis Antonio “Chito” Tagle twice: four years ago, in Europe when he was still the Bishop of Imus, Cavite; and recently, in Israel, a couple of weeks after the announcement […]
I don’t have a travel iron and I’m not really that trusting of hotel laundry and pressing services. So I looked around for ways to keep my shirts wrinkle-free when travelling (at least the ones I need to wear for meetings) and found this. I have used this technique several times and it works. The […]
Some hard core travellers would tell you that hopping on a tourist bus is a waste of time and money. By ‘hard core’ I mean backpackers on their thirdorfourth round-the-world trip who consider such things as expensive tourist traps. Why not just go around the city on your own? they would say. Why spend money […]
