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Macau: A Lorcha Comida Portuguesa
Before leaving for Macau, a friend who was there a couple of years ago strongly advised us to try this really good Portuguese restaurant. Unfortunately, my friend has a rather poor memory so she does not remember the restaurant’s name. In Macau, we asked around for this elusive restaurant’s name and our excellent Filipino concierge…
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Macau – Day 2
From the Royal Hotel, we walked along a colorful cobblestone street and took in this scenery to get to the famous Ruins of St. Paul’s. Ruins of St. Paul’s When we arrived at the cathedral, I was very surprised to see a lot of people. And I mean A LOT – like busloads of mostly…
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Macau – Day 1
We started our day with breakfast from McDonald’s in Hong Kong’s international airport. I had the Grilled Chicken Twisty Pasta, which cost me HK$ 22.50 and it was my worst breakfast ever. I did not expect it to have some sort of soup, which tasted weird (like water with a little salt, pepper and other…
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Almost Heaven
I found the above photo while I was backing up my online accounts/photos to my external hard drive. Isn’t it such a beauty? All the photos in this post were taken while onboard the plane on my first trip from Manila to Hong Kong in October 2010. Thanks to my window seat, I was able…
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Taal, Batangas: Nuestra Señora de Caysasay
Our Lady of Caysasay is a celebrated 17th century image of the Immaculate Conception. It was canonically crowned in 1954 and was later given the title the “Queen of the Archdiose of Lipa. It is said that a man named Juan Maningcad found this while he was casting his net in the nearby Pansipit River, as…
Thoughts, Tales, and Whatnot 