Review: Lotus Garden Hotel Manila
Lotus Garden Hotel‘s unassuming facade is not its strongest selling point. But I did not consider that at all when I was still weighing hotel…
Memories of Siquijor: from Bandilaan to Salagdoong (last of 2 parts)
View part 1 of the Siquijor series here. On our second day in Siquijor, the ‘engineer’ unrolled before us a map of the island. His neighbors…
Dinagat Diaries (first of 2 parts)
I am not sure if my travel companions sensed my relief as we boarded M/BCA Seahorse Express at the boulevard in Surigao City. We were…
The Sounds of Buscalan
Buscalan, in Kalinga, was very much alive when Andrew and I arrived there one Sunday morning in September. We were greeted with the curious stares…
My other best man speech
My dear Bagzh, I wrote this half-sober in our hotel room yesterday. You were sleeping like a newborn, and that’s only after a bottle or…