After years of travel, we’ve learned one thing for sure: something unexpected will happen eventually. We’ve dealt with cancelled flights, lost luggage, buses that were supposedly air conditioned but very definitely were not, and even accidentally overstaying a visa. Some travel problems are annoying. Others can get expensive or stressful pretty quickly. You can’t plan […]
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A jumbo balikbayan box from California to Metro Manila costs about USD 88 to ship. That is roughly PHP 110 a kilo if you pack it to 50 kg. Put the same 50 kg on an Emirates flight as airport excess baggage and you could pay USD 1,250, or more than PHP 78,000. Same pasalubong,
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This post is sponsored by Preply. We were given access to the platform to try it for ourselves, but all opinions and experiences here are our own. I’ve been trying to learn Spanish, on and off, for years. And when I say trying, I mean I’ve done a little bit of everything. I’ve used language
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Undas long weekend trips need sharper timing this year. All Saints’ Day lands on a Sunday this year, so the “long weekend” everyone is planning is really Saturday 31 October to Monday 2 November, three days, with most families spending at least one of them at the sementeryo. That leaves a tight window for a
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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 to this October is not Beijing. It is Wuhan, where a round trip from Manila
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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 in places like Spain, Portugal and Costa Rica to settle into some pretty ordinary routines.
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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 a piso fare costs. The gap is not a trick and it is not hidden,
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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 bought online before he flew out, eight months earlier. Neither one paid the hospital. He
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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 head the thought you keep postponing: I should book that flight. Here is the uncomfortable
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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 to any more, and almost nobody writing about this in English has caught up. Here
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