Food from the Philippines: the night workers street food (Special Edition)

The day workers night time street food Local street food stalls are certainly good to try out when traveling. There are usually two types: 1) The one locals regularly go to 2) The one setup for the tourist trade. This one often brings in locals looking for a night out too. But, there is a hidden third …

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Food from The Philippines: Honey pollinated by banana bees

Banana Honey I like honey. It tastes good, and is packed with goodness. But as I travel it’s rare that I would actually buy a jar of honey. It’s not so easy to carry around, and it’s not the sort of thing you can eat a lot of, quickly. The only time I’ve bought it …

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Finding Buddha in Davao, the Lon Wa Temple or Hua Temple

One called this place the Long Hua temple another called it the Lon Wa temple. It’s not that hard to write a guide book based on facts, but still they fail. The name outside is the Shaolin Kung Fu Temple. The taxi and jeepney guys just call it the Chinese temple. This is what got me …

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What is it like to live without food or water? Chronicles of life in Africa

I spent over two years living and working in Africa. I’ve not written much about it here; as at the time lack of electricity and the internet made it a near impossibility. I have everything written in hand journals. Many people have written to me asking for more about my time there and, I was planning to write …

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Food from The Philippines: Mangosteen

Delicious Mangosteens from The Philippines From the outside the mangosteen fruit looks like a slightly mutated purple tomato. But, like many good fruits inside lies a very special treat. Indeed today the mangosteen flavor is so popular it’s found in jam, juice and tea. Once someone makes mangosteen ice cream call chocolate, because it might just …

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Subscribers only: New Feature & Dedicated hosting reviews

Since Davao things have really become quite busy for me on many levels. Part of what is not written online, goes into manuscript format for the book, or maybe that’s books?! But here’s an overview: What’s happening? Right now, I am negotiating on several sources of revenue for my continued travel in search of a …

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Online Storage Hosting for Travelers: Why you need to do it

Benefits of online storage I’ve had online storage hosting for over a decade, it’s been invaluable to my traveling and photography. And, I consider it something few people take full advantage of. In my previous article about online photo hosting we looked at why photo hosting can save your travel blog or photography website, and save …

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