16 Places in Batanes That Will Make You Never Want to Leave (or Make You Start Planning Your Return ASAP)
* Whether you’re in Batanes for 2 days or 2 weeks, joining a tour group or going DIY, these are the stunningly gorgeous spots that will make you fall in love with the Philippines’ northernmost province — so much so that you’ll start keeping an eye out for seat sales the moment you get back […]
Remembering Yolanda
* Doong is a quaint little island off the northern coast of Cebu. But, no, this is not another travel post. This is what Doong looked like exactly a year ago, when Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Typhoon Yolanda) smashed into the Philippines and changed our lives forever. Haiyan was the strongest ever typhoon to make […]
Europe for the Heartbroken: 7 Perfect Places for Healing from a Broken Heart (2/7)
(This may or may not be based on personal experience.) -2- Amsterdam * Sometimes the best way to deal with depressing life events is to wallow in it until you’re just sick of feeling sad. And since misery loves company, why don’t you go to the Van Gogh Museum? Because whose life could be more […]
Europe for the Heartbroken: 7 Perfect Places for Healing from a Broken Heart (1/7)
(This may or may not be based on personal experience.) * I don’t know how many people travel to deal with a heartbreak but I suspect…quite a lot. It’s the slighly more expensive version of cutting one’s hair into a drastically short bob or dyeing it into a shocking shade of blond. There’s the appeal, […]
The Rolling Hills of Batanes
The Rolling Hills of Batanes, joked the guide, are so called because it is very easy to accidentally go rolling down the hills — if not to painful injury (or worse), then certainly to acute embarrassment. Not only are the inclines steep, the winds are very strong, and you have to make your way carefully through every ascent and descent. […]
Must-Knows for Filipinos Traveling with Children
Are you traveling with, or making travel arrangements for, a Filipino child? Here are the rules/requirements of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), and the Bureau of Immigration (BI) for minors traveling abroad. Definition * Anyone below 18 years of age is considered a minor (or child). […]