Crawling up and sliding down mountains The five hour journey from Banaue to Sagada was painfully slow due to the sluggish driving, a real contrast than that experienced throughout the rest of Asia. Myself, Jaimie, Janine and Eric arrived in Sagada and like in Batad, were ushered into the Tourist Office and made to pay our […]
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This week’s sweet treats: 20/06/2014
What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites! 1. A classic filipino snack, banana with condensed milk made by Drew at All Hands base, Tacloban, Philippines where Helen has been helping on Project Leyte after the typhoon […]
Putting my body through hell for one of the world’s wonders: Batad, Philippines
Crawling up and sliding down mountains After a few days of doing essentially nothing, myself, Jaimie, Eric and Janine caught the night bus from Manila to the small town of Banaue, synonymous to the Unesco World Heritage-listed Ifugo rice terraces – sometimes called by locals as the “Eighth Wonder of the World” – which span the Cordilla, […]
La Colombe – a real discovery
I was staying with 3 cycling pals at La Garance, a lovely hotel on Route de Mont Ventoux which is in a small hamlet called Sainte Colombe in the department of Vaucluse in the Province, south of France. From sunrise until sunset cyclists would be ascending and descending the mountain. Around the hamlet it is very pretty […]