Huis Ten Bosch. The universe’s way of foreshadowing my eventual trip to Europe or its consolation prize for my Schengen Visa rejection from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Whichever it might be, it gave me a pretty good glimpse of what I could have found had I…
With two and a half more hours left in my train ride from London to Edinburgh, I finally get the quiet time I need to compose a year-ender post. I was not able to do this type of post last year as I was still reeling from the aftermath of…
Three hours of train ride and twenty minutes more on the bus would not stop us from going to the famed Hells of Beppu. I first heard about hell in Religion class in grade school, got a very clear idea of how it works at the Haw Par Villa’s Courts…
Not so long ago, I found myself accepting an invite from a total stranger – an invitation to review a restaurant. It was my first time to attend any event as a blogger and that night was the gateway to a whole new world. My usher? Aldous of Aldous Ate…
I have never been a heavy coffee drinker. People who know me, know that I only like “patweetums” coffee: coffee heaped with sugar or caramel or cream or whipped cream or chocolate or all of them. I am no Lorelei nor Rory Gilmore who love coffee straight from the coffee…
Press Release 25 July 2016 Cazuela Serves Spanish Colonial Cuisine The cazuela is a clay pot used in cooking, it serves as a vessel for combining ingredients to make sumptuous dishes. Executive chefs Mon Urbano and Day Salonga had a similar idea for their newly-opened Cazuela restaurant. “We want diners…
The allure of traveling comes not just from discovering new scenic spots or eating new food, it also stems from staying at new places. However, choosing the latter can also become a source of stress particularly when planning a trip for people who have different needs and priorities. Such was…
The Spanish have a certain expression that can be used either as a question or a proud expression of a great transaction: bueno, bonito y barato. Literally, “good, nice and cheap,” it encompasses everything that means “It’s a great buy!” For us Filipinos, the word is sulit; whether we are…
One of the best restaurants where I had the privilege of eating was Tapella by Gaudi which serves authentic Spanish food and is conveniently located at Greenbelt 5. Although I have been a student of the language for years, I hardly had much experience with real Spanish food outside of…
Although the Philippine passport has only ranked 76th among the passports of the world in 2016, it could still take us to some pretty awesome places. Did you know that out of the 218 countries in the world, we can actually travel to at least 30 countries where applying for…
About an hour’s drive away from Pasig City lies a 1600 hectare of conservation area called the Masungi Georeserve. Seeking to protect not only the limestone formation that provides the backbone of this karst terrain, the Masungi Georeserve also aims to provide sanctuary to both the fauna and flora that…
Did you know that we, Filipinos, are actually known for our propensity for Amazing Race-like vacations? Yes, we are the people of “must maximize this trip” or “kailangan natin ‘to sulitin, minsan lang tayo dito,” with the ever-present fear that “di na tayo makakabalik dito ulit! (we’d never be able…
I believe that ultimately, the only things we regret in life are the things we did not do. And was I very grateful that I did not let my ambivalence take over when it came to whitewater river tubing during my trip in Davao. I had imagined that river tubing would…
Without any warning, summer has come. And with it, the infernal tropical heat. Granted, tropical winter decided not to grace us with its coolness last year. Naturally, come February, I was already pining for the beach. So, on the first weekend of March, I psyched myself up for an 8-hour…
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