Charles and I have spent nights in Australian gas station parking lots because we arrived after closing time without enough fuel to reach the next town. Apparently, we liked the experience enough to repeat it. Our trusty van dwarfed by an Australian termite mound That’s one of the less photogenic details from our six months […]
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On Saturday 20 December 2025, Manila’s main airport handled 171,306 passengers in a single day, according to its operator, New NAIA Infra Corp. That one number explains December here better than any weather chart. Half the country is going home, the other half is going to the beach, and everyone wants the same Christmas Eve
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We’ve tested a few larger BLUETTI power stations over the years, and they’ve been useful when we wanted serious backup power. The tradeoff is pretty obvious, though. Bigger batteries take up more room, weigh more, and aren’t necessarily something you casually grab on the way out the door. That’s what made the BLUETTI Elite 100
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Christmas comes twice in Belgrade. The Western calendar has it on 25 December, the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates on 7 January, and the Serbian New Year gets its own fireworks on the night of 13 January. For anyone raised on the Filipino Christmas season, the one that starts in September, a city that stretches the
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By Amanda Clark, Contributor Photo: Damien Dempsey / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0), cropped Most Filipinos in Australia save their annual leave for one trip, usually in December. Three weeks home, a long list of relatives, and by the time you land back in Sydney or Melbourne, the leave balance is empty and long weekends
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A Star Ferry ride across Victoria Harbour costs HK$5 on a weekday. That’s about PHP 40, and it gives you one of the best skyline views in Asia. Hong Kong has a reputation for being expensive, and parts of it are. But the things most Filipinos actually want from a long weekend there (the harbour,
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Sydney had been on our travel list for a LONG time, but somehow, despite travelling the world full-time since 2008, we had never made it to Australia until recently. We finally fixed that and spent 5 days in Sydney at the start of April. And, I have to say, it lived up to the hype!
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The job offer says EUR 600 a month. That’s about PHP 42,300, more than double what a minimum-wage job in Metro Manila pays. It sounds like a lot, until you remember that rent, food and winter clothes in Europe are not priced in pesos. So how much of that EUR 600 do you actually keep?
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Iceland is one of those destinations that’s just dying for you to rent a car and explore. Of course, you can see Iceland on organized tours, but having your own wheels gives you a completely different experience. There are waterfalls tumbling off cliffs, black-sand beaches, glaciers, steaming geothermal areas, tiny fishing villages, and viewpoints that seem
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If you have a foreign partner, a client abroad or an expat friend, you have probably been asked this already. They read that the Philippines now has a digital nomad visa, they picture a month in Siargao with a laptop, and they want to know where to apply. The honest answer, as of 11 October
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