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Charles and I have spent nights in Australian gas station parking lots because we arrived after closing time without enough fuel to reach the next town. Apparently, we liked the experience enough to repeat it. Our trusty van dwarfed by an Australian termite mound That’s one of the less photogenic details from our six months […]
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On Saturday 20 December 2025, Manila’s main airport handled 171,306 passengers in a single day, according to its operator, New NAIA Infra Corp. That one number explains December here better than any weather chart. Half the country is going home, the other half is going to the beach, and everyone wants the same Christmas Eve
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A Cambridge professor vanishes in 1843. Generations later, three teenagers find his coded notebook and a glowing crystal deep in England’s New Forest. Then the trail leads them to ancient stone circles. That is the setup of Circles – The Secrets of the Stones, the debut novel of David Horsup. It comes out on 27
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Christmas comes twice in Belgrade. The Western calendar has it on 25 December, the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates on 7 January, and the Serbian New Year gets its own fireworks on the night of 13 January. For anyone raised on the Filipino Christmas season, the one that starts in September, a city that stretches the
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Photo: Kach Medina-Umandap / Two Monkeys Nine leave days. That is all it takes to turn 2027 into 28 days off, spread across three proper breaks: Holy Week, Undas and the Christmas to New Year stretch. The catch is that 2027 is a stingy year in other ways. Six of its holidays land on a
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By Amanda Clark, Contributor Photo: Damien Dempsey / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0), cropped Most Filipinos in Australia save their annual leave for one trip, usually in December. Three weeks home, a long list of relatives, and by the time you land back in Sydney or Melbourne, the leave balance is empty and long weekends
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A Manila to Caticlan seat on Friday 30 October was going for PHP 3,704 when we checked fares on 18 October. The same route on Sunday 1 November? PHP 2,238. Same route, same island, 40 percent cheaper, just because most of the country will be at the sementeryo that day instead of at NAIA. That
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A Star Ferry ride across Victoria Harbour costs HK$5 on a weekday. That’s about PHP 40, and it gives you one of the best skyline views in Asia. Hong Kong has a reputation for being expensive, and parts of it are. But the things most Filipinos actually want from a long weekend there (the harbour,
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The ginkgo trees on Jingu Gaien’s famous avenue are forecast to turn gold around 26 November this year, a little later than most Filipinos expect. That one date changes your whole trip. Book for the second week of November and you get green leaves at yellow-leaf prices. Book for the last week and you walk
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Sydney had been on our travel list for a LONG time, but somehow, despite travelling the world full-time since 2008, we had never made it to Australia until recently. We finally fixed that and spent 5 days in Sydney at the start of April. And, I have to say, it lived up to the hype!
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