by Minter Dial | Jan 8, 2009 | Travel, WWII
The least I can say for our New Year’s, is that it started off with a bang for us. A thriller in Manila, to coin a phrase a little literally (and litorally). For the first two days of 2009, I took my family to the island of Corregidor in the mouth of the Bay of...
by Minter Dial | Jan 3, 2009 | Travel, WWII
Having boarded a 6 a.m. flight in Guam, we arrived 3 1/2 hours later in Manila at 7:30 a.m., and headed straight north by car toward Banaue, to see the beautiful Ifugao rice terraces (acclaimed UNESCO historical site since 1995). The drive, as it turned out, was 10...
by Minter Dial | Jan 3, 2009 | Travel
A selection of sites and addresses to retain (or not) in Manila, Philippines In our two days touring Manila, we made a few decisive visits which I will share with you in case you have planned to go to Manila. On the cultural side, we had virtually a solo visit of the...
by Minter Dial | Jul 22, 2008 | Travel
Kenya – A Recap of our 6 days in the Great Wild Bush We arrived in Kenya at Nairobi International airport on our holidays in May and, somewhat predictably, spent the first 30 minutes in a highly disorganized line up to get through customs. We had already purchased our...
by Minter Dial | May 4, 2008 | Travel
After a first experience on Emirates Airline, two weeks ago (post here), I have since taken three more flights with Emirates (EK). Turns out our first experience was not one-off. We flew from Dubai to Nairobi a week later, then on Thursday we did a double header:...
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