Picture a city of castles built from blocks of river ice, lit from inside in pink, green and electric blue, at minus 20 degrees. That is the Harbin Ice Festival, and it is as unreal in person as it looks in photos. It is also one of the coldest trips most of us from the […]
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Planning a vacation sounds like fun until you’re 37 browser tabs deep, comparing hotel rooms, trying to figure out flight prices, and wondering how a supposedly affordable getaway suddenly got so expensive. And if you’re planning how to plan a trip for a family, you’ve got everyone’s expectations to manage, too. Charles and I have
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Thirty thousand people a night, sometimes more. That is how many came to St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Dubai for the evening novena in December 2025, according to Gulf News, most of them Filipinos. It is the clearest proof that this nine-night Christmas tradition never stayed in the Philippines. It travels with us. Wherever you
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PHP 4,099 a month. That is what Starlink’s home plan costs in the Philippines today. It was PHP 2,700 when it launched here in 2023. Now add the kit and shipping. In some neighbourhoods, there is also a one-time “demand surcharge” of more than PHP 30,000. So the first bill can look nothing like the
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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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We’ve tested a few larger BLUETTI power stations over the years, and they’ve been useful when we wanted serious backup power. The tradeoff is pretty obvious, though. Bigger batteries take up more room, weigh more, and aren’t necessarily something you casually grab on the way out the door. That’s what made the BLUETTI Elite 100
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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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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 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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