I was browsing through my old pictures – when I first started traveling – and it wasn’t anywhere nearby but England no less. I stayed overnight at a friend’s house in Surrey on my first night before heading off to Paris across the English channel on an Eurostar train the next morning. That would be my very first time sharing a room with a bunch of total strangers. I remember how the room was advertised to have two bunk-beds intended…
I had very high expectations for New Zealand. Ever since I watched the first movie of the LOTR trilogy (followed by another trilogy The Hobbit), I had been dreaming to go there and see for myself all the places that were featured on the movies – The Fellowship of the Ring, The Twin Towers and The Return of the King. In fact the beauty of the places was one of the reasons why I could not wait to watch the…
So I was in Manila recently, playing a tour guide to a bunch of my family members who were there for a very short vacation. Unlike in my previous trips to Manila which were dominated by the use of jeepneys, I used quite a number of taxis this time. One of the best things about taxi drivers in Manila is their ability to speak quite fluent English. It’s always easy to communicate with them at length. So I grabbed the…