Travel Photos & Musings By Nathan W. Allen
A place that, over the years, I’ve been proud to call home. Please enjoy my Albay Travel guide. I bet you’ll like it as much I do… Foodie? Nature Lover? You’ve Just Met Your Match… About a year ago, the media posted my letter to a Polish blogger: “In defense of Filipino food“. At the...
What an unexpected surprise to find this yearly festival in the Philippines – please enjoy my Masbate Rodeo photos below… So The Philippines Has a Rodeo I have to be honest. I am from the U.S…from the state that held the world’s first rodeo over a hundred years ago. This does not make me some...
I have had the great pleasure of exploring much of the Philippines from north to south, and when people ask me where to spend their 2-4 week vacation in the country, Bohol is definitely one of my TOP 3 suggestions! Why? Well, the island is one of the most stunning, accessible, and diverse paradises of...
A tiny plane to a tiny island with BIG volcanoes, waterfalls, hot springs, and perfect white sand beaches = one unforgettable trip. A death-march up a volcano in the sun, a purple stubbed-toe and bee sting to-the-neck weren’t even enough to ruin such a beautiful place for me! Here’s my Camiguin Island travel guide… I...
(January 2021 Update: This “letter to the Philippines” was written 7 years ago. I have not been back to the country for quite a while, so I’m not sure how much of this still applies. Hopefully less of the negative and more of the positive:) Anyhow…just something to keep in mind as you read it...
Here we go again! Another anti-Filipino blog. I hope my Filipino friends won’t take this miserable Singapore hate-blog too personally. To understand what is going on in Singapore, perhaps we need some perspective. Did you know that workers in Singapore are ranked as the most unhappy in the world? Yes, many people are very unhappy...
Enough is Enough – Please Stop Fueling Mrs. Sanchez’s Fire My father always told me that unfortunately, even negative publicity is good publicity. No one seems to understand this better than Korina Sanchez, and it looks like she might be using us as pawns in her strategic game of chess. I thought it was bad...