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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 I saw this interesting book in the Airport Bookstore. Unsure why I didn't buy it then and there.
It's called The Gap Year Book (Lonely Planet) and it gives travel recommendations for those who decide to take a year off before or after university to travel and see the world. The time before or after studies is recommended because it would be impossible to take a year off work once you've actually started a job and settled in. Excellent resource, I regret not having seen this earlier. Although in reality, I don't know if I would have been able to take a whole year off to travel because it's not like girls travel around by themselves to begin with. Still it's always nice to dream, dreams are free. You get information on how to do all sorts of crazy things:
It's been a little over one day since I've come back from my seven week UK trip and I'm still in a semi-daze about things. It took 23 hours to complete my journey from my UK digs to my house. London Heathrow has to be one of the ugliest airports I have ever seen in my life, a shocker for what is supposed to be one of the world's cultural and business center points. The Singapore airport was much better Last night I unfortunately had no appetite to speak of and ended up eating in Yoshinoya, which I've been meaning to try out since they reopened their outlets in Manila a few months back. Terrible salty dry beef bowl, weirdo green iced tea, and week old kimchi. All for the rip roaringly reasonable price of PHP99 (that's less than one quid! I'll be annoying for my first week back and convert everything to Pound Sterling). In any case I'll be able to make up for lost meals this coming weekend. Dinner somewhere normal in Greenbelt 2/3 on Friday, Lunch somewhere along Roxas Boulevard on Saturday (before I take in a walking tour), Dinner in the Tomas Morato area (maybe Katre?) on Saturday evening, Drinks at Big Sky Mind on late Saturday evening, and Dinner in the Malate area on Sunday evening. Might also have dinner in that fancy Indian restaurant in the Fort on Thursday. And will definitely be having a nice lunch on Sunday because my family will be complete! Hmmm, it's a little scary thinking about all the eating out I'll be doing this weekend. Hopefully, I'll be over my dazed unproductive stupor tomorrow. posted by wys | 8:47 PM 0 comments Sunday, March 21, 2004 If you came from the UK after two months of mediocre redundant food, what restaurant would you eat in as soon as you got back to Manila? My flight is coming in on a Monday, around 2.00pm or so and I'll need to have an excellent meal. Any and all suggestions are very much welcome. Or I could just drive straight to The Spa from the airport and get a ten-hour massage. posted by wys | 5:26 PM 0 comments As my UK trip draws to a close, I find myself spending money at a scarily increasing velocity. I end up thinking everything is really cheap when it's a few pounds (a few hundred pesos in real life). In any case I have a week left so I don't see how much more money I can spend, because I've already pumped so much money into the UK economy anything spent on this last week will be inconsequential. posted by wys | 10:31 AM 0 comments Monday, March 15, 2004 I've been totally delinquent with my updates but there's only so much you can write about when you're abroad. In any case I'm due back in Manila this coming 29th of March so expect more regular food updates then. I think I'll be driving straight from the airport to get myself some delicious, reasonably priced food. posted by wys | 6:25 AM 0 comments Monday, March 08, 2004 When I'm in another country I find it pretty useless to go for "good ol" Italian or Chinese food, or even worse, lousy American family restaurant fare. These past few weeks I've found myself in two Italian restaurants, TGIFriday's, Hard Rock Cafe (Edinburgh), and a Chinese Restaurant (good choice though). There have been some good choices though, like a trendy Japanese restaurant (I liked it because it was trendy, not really because of the food), a Belgian restaurant, a nice French Creperie (is that a word?). When in England, do as the English do. Well maybe not English food 24/7 because their food is even more bland than American food (yes it's possible), but at least something that you won't be able to find anywhere else in the world. I'm just complaining because when you're in a big group (of semi-strangers) it's hard to get a general consensus about a good place to dine. As always you would want to please the majority and rather than risking rocking the boat, tis the easiest thing to suggest something generic and boring. posted by wys | 9:09 AM 0 comments |
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