Together with friends from the Erasmus Alumni Association Philippines, I went to visit Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bataan on Chinese New Year 2018.
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Ideally, it would have been best to board a flight from Manila to El Nido since we were arriving in Manila from Bangkok. However, the fare from Manila to the idyllic island(s) of El Nido were at rocket-high 15,000 Php!
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With my black suitcase and trusty old red backpack ready, I’m set to take on a new adventure to my first ever trip to an Asian country – Thailand! To add more excitement to that, I would be travelling with my best friend of more than a decade, Kat, to support and witness her first ever participation to an international conference. But that’s not all! I was also set to meet B after four long months!
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Lea flew in last Friday to Manila from Singapore. I met her at the domestic airport early that afternoon. We were bumped into an earlier flight. We were set to go to the island of Coron in Palawan!
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Someone once asked me: Leni, what's there to see in Rouen? That time, I only knew about the cathedral and that this was the place where Joan of Arc was burnt. So I answered: I heard there's this cathedral. His reply: Leni, what French city does not have a cathedral? Point taken. Ten months later, I'm still discovering what my host city has to offer to have better answers if this question ever come up again.
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I decided to embark on yet another solo journey, this time, to the heart of Europe. First stop: Prague. Prague has always fascinated me and I am so glad I get the chance to visit this time!
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So there I was, together with a group of about twenty people, one rainy day in April, strolling along the streets of Madrid. We settled on the palace garden, as our guide wraps up his tour when suddenly, a drunken old man approached us.
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If I were to build my own house, I’d always think about Salvador Dali’s place in Cadaqués, Spain - a Catalan town bordering France. It was so dreamy, sitting in a tranquil riverside.
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Mi casa es tu casa, as you said. But instead, I am here, sitting alone, waiting for the driver to come pick me up and drop me off the hostel where I would be sharing a room with four other strangers.
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This trip may have summed up my stay abroad so far.
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With the same foundation I joined in from the free walking tour at Warsaw, I dragged my friend Jan to the same tour concept in Gdańsk, a city north of Poland.
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It was a 4 ½ hour drive. The view wasn’t spectacular. All I could see was construction, forests and a few houses. So I decided to grab my laptop from my bag and continue my post about my Warsaw weekend. As if we were in the middle of a conversation, the guy behind me asked why I chose to visit Poland. He was speaking really loudly that I got a little bit conscious. We continued talking for about an hour.
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