Christmas comes twice in Belgrade. The Western calendar has it on 25 December, the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates on 7 January, and the Serbian New Year gets its own fireworks on the night of 13 January. For anyone raised on the Filipino Christmas season, the one that starts in September, a city that stretches the […]
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Photo: Kach Medina-Umandap / Two Monkeys Nine leave days. That is all it takes to turn 2027 into 28 days off, spread across three proper breaks: Holy Week, Undas and the Christmas to New Year stretch. The catch is that 2027 is a stingy year in other ways. Six of its holidays land on a
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A Star Ferry ride across Victoria Harbour costs HK$5 on a weekday. That’s about PHP 40, and it gives you one of the best skyline views in Asia. Hong Kong has a reputation for being expensive, and parts of it are. But the things most Filipinos actually want from a long weekend there (the harbour,
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The ginkgo trees on Jingu Gaien’s famous avenue are forecast to turn gold around 26 November this year, a little later than most Filipinos expect. That one date changes your whole trip. Book for the second week of November and you get green leaves at yellow-leaf prices. Book for the last week and you walk
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Sydney had been on our travel list for a LONG time, but somehow, despite travelling the world full-time since 2008, we had never made it to Australia until recently. We finally fixed that and spent 5 days in Sydney at the start of April. And, I have to say, it lived up to the hype!
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Charles and I started traveling together back in 2003, when it was just the two of us with backpacks, a loose itinerary, and a whole lot of enthusiasm for seeing the world. Since then, we’ve explored more than 40 countries together, built a travel business, and spent nearly 18 years traveling with our two kids.
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If you have a foreign partner, a client abroad or an expat friend, you have probably been asked this already. They read that the Philippines now has a digital nomad visa, they picture a month in Siargao with a laptop, and they want to know where to apply. The honest answer, as of 11 October
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New York City is one of those places that can feel slightly overwhelming before you arrive. There are five boroughs, dozens of neighborhoods, thousands of hotels, and an endless list of things to see and do. So, where should you actually stay in New York City? Having visited New York a few times ourselves, our
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We’ve tested a few larger BLUETTI power stations over the years, and they’ve been useful when we wanted serious backup power. The tradeoff is pretty obvious, though. Bigger batteries take up more room, weigh more, and aren’t necessarily something you casually grab on the way out the door. That’s what made the BLUETTI Elite 100
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Photo: Paulo O / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) At 6:22am on 23 December 2019, a traveler from Halifax, Canada, stepped out of NAIA and took the photo above: paper lanterns overhead, carts piled with bags, and a crowd so thick the security guard could barely see the road. That is the part of coming
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