Month: December 2007

  • Cebu Pacific Piso fares to Xiamen

    I was all set to post something else, but this Cebu Pacific just came in: Fly to Xiamen, China for as low as ONE PESO! Visit Xiamen, famous for being an ancestral home to overseas Chinese, including some of the Philippines great Taipans. The seat sale will run from December 10 to 16, 2007 and…

  • Win A Lonely Planet Travel Journal!

    This year has been good to me. The first minutes of 2007 found me here in Melbourne, atop a bridge with the whole neighborhood, looking out to the city where the fireworks are. Though I never got to travel anywhere else this year, I was able to travel around Australia. I joined in the revelry…

  • Manila through the eyes of an Aussie

    When people find out that I am from the Philippines, and it turns out that they’re thinking of traveling there, the usual question that they ask me is “is it safe to travel there?” I have been living in Manila since 1980, and lived 27 years with only minor cuts and bruises, usually caused by…