Northview Hotel Laoag
Barangay 46 Valvo, Airport Road Laoag, Luzon, Philippines
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Ocean Drivin' in Ilocos
... first glimpse as we approached left no question why. It dominates. Some call it "Earthquake Baroque"...a mix of Gothic, Baroque, Chinese and Javanese influences. A huge bell tower stands apart from the main building should it fall in earthquakes (it hasn't). Buttresses not only support the structure, but have stairs to climb the church roof to escape typhoon floods.
We drove south along the ocean into Ilocos Sur province, and the colonial town of Vigan. We walked ...
Day out in Illocos Norte
... to the man-made beach allows the viewer to get ‘up close and personal’ with the structures. All bar one of the turbines was operational and despite the healthy wind, and the ‘whoosh’ of one of the blades (looked like something caught at the end of it), were pretty quiet. The entrance area to the beach was lined with stalls selling snacks and drinks and little wooden replicas of the turbines, their blades also turning ...
Our last stop in the Philippines
... with its long concrete runway standing out so clearly from the surrounding countryside. Two small training aircraft took off before we reached the area but we didn’t see them in the air. The coastline was becoming quite varied with the occasional cliff interspersed with sandy beaches. It is a popular and famous surfing area.
Darigayos Point was next, followed by Tamulung Point and the Tineg River Estuary before we reached the town of Vigan , ...
100 Games of Cribbage
... you from the elements and provide you a clean place to have a shower? Here we were attacked by mosquitoes, ants and had **** raining on us all night. And it would have been cleaner to squat outdoors than use the shared bathrooms.
Sure, the food at the restaurant wasn't bad - but that's hardly enough to redeem the place. The best part was that Kapuluan Vista Resort bills itself as "environmentally friendly" and ...
More VOE & fun at the hotel
With only one event left, Glenn's Green Team is tied with the Resty's Yellow. The next event, a "Rope Relay" in which teams are given a 2-meter rope bound on the ends. The objective of the game is to have the teams form a circle and then by transferring the rope from one teammate without letting go of their hands. It's a game of ...
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