Tagged: Philippines

The Friday Photo: Hobbit House

This is Hobbit House, Manila, a regular on lists of the world’s weirdest restaurants. It seems, at first blush, like an absolutely horrible concept: a...

All Dollars Are Not Created Equal

When it comes to travel money, there’s a general assumption that good old US greenbacks will work almost anywhere in the world, even beyond the...

scarlet hibiscus covered in dew, pulau kadidiri, indonesia

#theglamoroftravel

It was on the golden sands of Pulau Kadidiri, in the Togian Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia, as a wave of what I would dearly like to...

little girls in marching band, Rantepao, Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

A Fistful of Dollars

Our favoured local, back in Rantepao in the Tana Toraja, was the hangout of the local Guides Association, a Teamsteresque conglomerate of the most amiable...

The Museum of Doctor Rizal

Manila is not a spiritual city. It’s one of those big, dirty, urban sprawls, expanding organically, growing without control, the beating heart of an archipelago,...