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Destination Wedding: Aguirre-Cahen French-Filipino Beach Nuptials
February 25, 2017 – Scroll down to download MC script and / or Bride and Groom Questionnaire It took me a total of four flights and three changes to make it to Mayen’s wedding a couple of weeks ago in South Palms Beach Resort, Bohol. I was supposed to fly in with my ex, but the airline…
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Chiang Mai’s Best Elephant Tours – Elephant Jungle Conservatory
Diary of a day spent with the elephants in one of Chiang Mai’s jungle conservations Plus a comprehensive list of Chiang Mai’s best elephant tours in the end The elephants made sure I would never forget that day. The scrapes and bruises all over my legs rendered me unable to do anything remotely physical for weeks afterwards,…
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Chiang Mai Temple Tour x WÖLSCH Watches
February 10, 2017 – We decided to do the major temples of Chiang Mai all in one go. More than halfway through it, we were so tired from walking under the powerful sun we took a massage break at the Old Medicine Hospital. The latter is actually a massage school where you can get good quality no-frills services…
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What It Really Feels Like To Be A Stereotyped Filipina
As seen on Thought Catalog and (more notoriously) on Coconuts Hong Kong “Where are you from?” asks a man across the aisle from me on a flight to Hong Kong from Tokyo. He is a middle-aged Asian, stout and short, and has been working on a Japanese language exercise book since the plane took off. “Philippines,”…
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Gallery Vask: If Manila had 3 Michelin stars, this would be it
I never knew Filipino fine dining existed, until meeting Gallery Vask‘s degustacion menu Having scanned through the other reviews, I thought to add my own two cents to the literature out there, since several of the others sound little better than press releases. Premise When I heard that the 39th among Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants was…
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Template: Request for a Long Term/Multiple Entry Visa
<Date> To the <Name of Embassy>: I, <Full Name>, <citizenship> citizen with passport number <Passport No.>, would like to request a longer stay visa for <country>. Over the past two years I have been flying in and out of <region> as part of my work and assignments as <reason>, in addition to leisure trips as…
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Day Trip from Barcelona: Hiking Montserrat
Easily one of the most beautiful days of my life. The first thought that comes to mind when someone says “Barcelona” would be the famous beachfont, La Sagrada Familia, FCB / Camp Nou, La Rambla… but hiking in the mountains? Little do people know that the mountain range 50km northwest of Catalunya’s capital is a magical world entirely…
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Food Trip + Easy Hike: Tagaytay & Mount Talamitam
We combined a Tagaytay food trip with a short excursion to burn off the calories! Distance: ??km – I don’t know why the Mountaineers over here never give precise information on trail lengths, but my estimate would be 7km up and down. Duration: 3 hours up and down Difficulty: Easy Admittedly, hiking in the Philippines is far…
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Madrid Day Trips: Walking & Hiking in Cuenca
Skip the town, head to the trails One drizzly day in Spain, we decided to drive to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Cuenca from Madrid. I wish I knew then what I knew now, otherwise we wouldn’t have wasted time walking aimlessly around the pueblo. Of course when we got there (around lunch time),…
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Do not go gentle into that good night
Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas, 1914 – 1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no…
Morena Travels
Travel & Personal Essays by Julienne C. Raboca
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