Well, after dawdling for a few months we finally got our honeymoon in order–but not without some hiccups. When we finally decided on Spain, we targeted Barcelona as the city we wanted to base ourselves in; however, when it came time to book my frequent flier miles, United only let me go to Madrid–except we [...]
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I’m a notorious packrat. Case in point, I’ve been racking up frequent flier miles since I was 16 years old, since then I’ve managed to hoard over 140,000 miles. The weird thing was that there wasn’t a specific trip or anything that I was saving for–I was just doing it for ONE DAY when I [...]
So in my research about traveling in Barcelona, I came across a somewhat funny article called Barcelona Clothes and Dress Code: Tips on How to Blend in With the Locals. The primary reason for this article is to keep tourists safe from scam-artists and pickpockets, but I would argue that those people would be targets [...]
After months of deliberation we finally narrowed down what we wanted to do on the honeymoon. Something exotic. Something with diving possibilities. The beach. We added the stipulation “no Asia,” since we’d lived three years of our life there and already been to various countries multiple times (as much as we love Asia, there’s many [...]
I haven’t been writing here because it’s been a year since I’ve left the country (the U.S). At the risk of sounding like a poor little rich girl, this one year is the longest I’ve stayed in one country in the past 10 years or so. Thinking about it, this may the longest stretch without [...]
Something I’ve always wanted to do is learn how to scuba dive. Imagine my delight when I found out that not only does my cousin dive, but she was willing to take us out somewhere to go on an intro dive. We drove out to Anilao in Batangas to a small resort. When I arrived, [...]
Living in Japan, I often heard people ask me, “how can we Japanese learn English?” or “How come the Koreans/Chinese/Filipinos/Singaporeans speak English better than us?” It was kind of an odd question that I couldn’t really answer before, but coming back to the Philippines the answer seems so obvious: you learn English by using it. [...]
While in the Philippines, my cousins and uncles have been trying endlessly to gross out Hugh with “exotic” Filipino food. I think this is a pretty common practice around the world, where rather than be embarassed about some local delicacies, most people consider Americans (and its usually Americans who are so grossed out by foreign [...]
After the wedding, we went with my cousins to Baguio, a mountain-top city which serves as a summer retreat for Manilans. I was told that it was very rural and provincial, but I guess after backpacking through rural Laos I had a completely different idea of what that would be. While it was certainly quite [...]
We officially arrived in the Philippines on the 26th, worn-out and suffering from food poisoning (well, me at least.) However, after a few days of rest we were able to attend my cousin’s wedding. Although I’m ethnically Filipino, I was born and raised in the United States and had only attended one Filipino wedding prior [...]
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