A good time was had by all in the first La Laguna Tour last Sunday. We were blessed with good weather and enthusiastic participants. We expected to spend less than 1 hour in Calamba but because there was a massive crowd gathered in Rizal shrine we end up surpassing the allotted time I originally planned. Fortunately, the traffic […]
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mel2KbnyeJ8] We recorded this podcast for one special reason. To promote a project that has been simmering in our minds for months—a history tour of Laguna. While we both know that it’s an uphill battle to get it rolling, we’re determined to make it happen. That great Spaniard novelist Miguel Cervantes wrote, “a closed […]
tag: calamba, victoria laguna, paete, lumban, pila, pagsanjan, paquil, laguna Last Sunday, we did an ocular tour of the lake shore towns of Laguna. We’re planning to do a history tour. My historian cum blogger friend, Pepe Alas, would deliver content and overall direction for the project. A few years ago, he was tasked to write […]
From Alabang, I took a bus going to Sta. Cruz, alighted near Pagsanjan and boarded a jeep straight to Magdalena. These once distant historic towns are now so accessible there’s no excuse not to see them. Back in the day when FPJ would bring his crew to shoot in town, Magdalena was still a fallow […]
Probably, the most challenging trip in recent memory for me. Lacking sleep and rest, straight from work, with the hottest of seasons upon us – I committed to worship in all seven Yglesias I listed down from the other night with the help of Layug’s classic, “A Tourist Guide to Notable Philippine Churches”. The mission […]