Garden Heights Manila Quezon City

... had been cancelled. Or worse, I could have been stuck in neck-deep water along EDSA on the way to the airport. OMG, the thought of this grim scenario still gives me the creeps!<br> <br>While writing this, I thought it would probably take some time before people will be able to accept this tragic event, especially those who&#8217;ve lost their homes, their belongings, and their loved ones. But one thing occurred to me: God must have a ...

... into an MOT test station emission test machine I would fail!!<br><br>We visited china town amongst dire warnings to get Flora a suitcase as this is usually the cheapest place to buy anything in Manila, sure enough we got the same as we had seen in mall at 3000psos for 1800psos, left it in the shop and explored the place looking for good food, eventually found a place down the backstreets full of chinese and had a really good meal, all the place ...

Sunday we all went to an eco farm resort in Cavite (south of Manila), lots of swimming pools with water slides, horses, fishing, plants like pineapples etc. Nice little bamboo huts each with a bbq.<br>Flora's mother did a fantastic BBQ with Bangus (fish) and lots of salad (green tomato with onion, cucumber, egg plant, banana, custard cake, red rice), we contributed some chicken and drink, to many things we had to eat to describe ...

... the one weekend we wanted to go and the next time it was a holiday weekend and traffic would have made it an impossibly long trip. Then I tried to book a vacation for Christmas week to Palawn, the last frontier of the Philippines. Two attempts got me no reply from the travel agent and to find info or book a reservation on the internet was not going to happen. I finally decided we should go to the Manila based office for one of the resorts ...

... to have a look at the altar and left his belongings with me. When he came back I said I wanted to have a look as well and left my daypack with him. Within 30 seconds I returned but the "Japanese" guy was gone, as was my daypack... :'-( After looking for the guy for about 10 minutes I went straight to the police. From the local police I was brought to the Manila Police Headquarters, where the General Assignment Department worked on my case. First they had me ...

The weekend went by and we expected to see James, the driver on Monday morning. But it was Burt who picked us up to take us to the bank. He didn't know why James wasn't back yet but Burt said he still expected him. After setting Russ up with a bank account I went to the office. I was talking to Mark and told him what happened with James. When I told him the story that his house was ...

C - Holy ****! I have never seen so many guns in all my born days. There were the security guards at all the hotels, with reflective gear and rifles, there were the guys in camos at the train stations with the police dogs (OK, not guns, but still...) there were the security guards at the malls with holstered pistols, there were the pistols for sale at the sport shops ...

... travel agents or you can send me email asking how. You can also browse the Internet for on line booking and choose the means convenient and safe for you. But for me as a traveler/tourist who enjoying sight seeing and traveling by land, I usually like to take train so I can enjoy the scenery as I pass by. It's fulfilling that way for me. From Hong Kong you can travel by airplane directly to Beijing. There are at least five airline companies ...

... of green coconuts in the shade. There is nothing to do but laugh and drum up business. I wonder if there are other tiny villages further in. I wonder if prices would go up with each threshold crossed. The rest of my time in this region was spent climbing in and out of colourful tricycles and jeeps, clouds of dark exhaust blooming behind me as I wandered about, visiting the birthplace of national hero Jose Rizal, visiting an enormous University of the ...

... shopping we had lunch at Jollibee, it's his first taste of "lasang pinoy" :-) and he loved it. After lunch we headed to Jun Encarnation for a foot spa, at firt he was reluctant to experience one for himself but when he saw that I was enjoying the treatment, he finally gave in :-)... The supposed to be foot spa was extended with a back massage :-)... So that ends our first day of shopping and relaxing... We headed back to our hostel...