Travelling on foot is still the best way to explore and move around a place, with the added benefit of toning your leg muscles while you’re at it. It can be a guided tour, one with specific stops in mind, or just wandering aimlessly and seeing where your feet will take you. When PTB came up with the Blog Carnival topic for this month, I thought of the best walking tours I had this year. Of course the Walk this Way

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I will start this off by saying that I am in no way an expert in these things. A few people have teased me about having lots of resources because they see me going on trips frequently. The truth is, they probably have more finances than I have. I live on my office laptop (my personal laptop was broken and I haven’t gotten around to fixing it), I’m smarter than my phone (my phone is solely made for calling and

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I have long wanted to see a city in the country where arts and culture is strongly supported. This longing was satisfied when I visited Silay City in Negros Occidental earlier this year. Silay in itself is a lovely gem but the highlight of the experience was spending an afternoon with a Silaynon and his rich and engaging stories. The fact that we had to call ahead to set an appointment to view an ancestral house was enough to rouse

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