Two OFWs in Dubai send their padala on the same Monday morning. One pays AED 2,005 through Remitly and her mother in Batangas gets PHP 33,860 in her bank account. The other pays AED 2,000 on Wise with a debit…
She walked away from a WTA 1000 in Beijing to wear the flag at the Asian Games, reportedly willing to eat a $10,000 fine for it. That tells you who someone is. It also means the Chinese city worth flying…
You get the notification, you drop everything, you fight the queue, and you win. Manila to Cebu, base fare PHP 1. Then you reach the payment screen and the number says PHP 903. You did nothing wrong. That is what…
After more than 20 years of travel, Charles and I have spent a lot more time outside Canada than the average vacation allows. We spent about five months in Australia, months at a time in other countries, and long enough…
Ten route pages. One number. Manila to Cebu, a 90 minute hop, says book 40 days ahead. Manila to Los Angeles, seventeen hours with a stop, says book 40 days ahead. Cebu to Singapore, Manila to Dubai, Manila to Tokyo,…
A Filipino developer I know spent four nights in a Bangkok hospital last year after a scooter clipped him on Sukhumvit. The bill came to about 380,000 baht, roughly PHP 660,000. He had PhilHealth. He had a travel policy he…
The Philippine Arena is not in Manila. It is in Bulacan, about 30 kilometers north of EDSA, past the Marilao exit on NLEX, in a 140 hectare complex with almost nothing around it. Fifty thousand people are going to find…
Walk down Dapitan in Quezon City in late August and the Santa Claus figurines are already hanging three deep from the ceiling. That is the signal. Ber months, parol lights on the jeepneys, and somewhere in the back of your…
Serbia has never had an embassy in the Philippines. For years that meant scanning documents to Jakarta, wiring money to an Indonesian bank, then couriering your actual passport there and waiting. Plenty of Filipinos did it. You do not have…
On your first trip to Barcelona, there are some places you just have to see. The Sagrada Família, Park Güell, the Gothic Quarter and La Rambla are on most first time itineraries for good reason. But what about when you’ve…
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