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28 March 2023 We had been pre-warned of Singapore’s reputation for rules and old jokes on the subject abound: it should be renamed...

10 March 2023 Canigaran Beach is just a short ride from our temporary home-base in the barangay of Bancao-Bancao. Located at the end of...

5 March 2023 When someone like Jacques Cousteau, the famous French oceanographer, described Palawan as the most beautiful place he had...

9 February 2023 Taking advantage of the low-priced mid-week tickets offered by Cebu Pacific (USD 130 return for two), we took a 55-minute...

31 December 2022 Manila was our last trip for this year and back in Puerto Princesa, on the beautiful island of Palawan, we settled down...

21 December 2022 I had read somewhere how a traveller to Manila had described the place, comparing it to a halo-halo, a local snack made...

19 December 2022 While boarding our flight to Manila from Heathrow, I was asked by the airline agent at the gate to show details of my...

3 November 2022 When we think back to New England, one particular image comes to mind: a village with a green, clapboard houses, an old...

27 October 2022 It was now time to return to Seattle, having already bought a cheap flight ticket from there back to Boston,...

20 October 2022 Grand Teton is situated about 100 miles south of Yellowstone National Park (from which it is also visible). Much smaller...

17 October 2022 We had been told that October was a good month to visit the Park to avoid the zillion other visitors milling around its...

16 October 2022 There are perhaps easier - and certainly, quicker - ways of getting to Yellowstone National Park from Seattle than by car...

12 October 2022 A four-hour bus ride from Vancouver brought us to the central bus station in Seattle and from there we took the metro to...

7 October 2022 We had started out this trip on a cruise around the Norwegian fjords and what we particularly appreciated about it -...

1 October 2022 It was time to get out of the city and explore the fabulous-looking nature around it. We took a rental car and headed off...

30 September 2022 Victoria is a 95-minute BC Ferries trip from Tsawwassen, the ferry terminal south of Vancouver, to Swartz Bay, on...

25 September 2022 On leaving Montreal, our original plan had been to check out Canada’s eastern seaboard - Quebec, Nova Scotia and Prince...

21 September 2022 After having spent the whole summer almost exclusively under sunny, cloudless skys, the rain finally caught up with us...

15 September 2022 About 700,000 gallons of water go over Niagara Falls every second. It would have been travesty to visit Toronto and not...

14 September 2022 To avoid the exorbitant downtown hotel rates, we rented an Air B&B property in a Toronto suburb, Scarborough, about a...