I was really amazed seeing that some of the beautiful places in Negros were featured in a tourist magazine. Among them are some of the old houses, Silay City and Nature Village in Talisay. I last visited Natures Village more than seven years ago when the place was just operating. That’s why I am so excited to see how it is now. I am so excited to see new beautiful places, new resorts and hotels with new modern furniture especially now with a new airport.

I am sure two weeks of vacation will not really be enough to see all the tourist spots, beautiful resorts, new bars and hang outs.

During the heights of Typhon Pepeng in Pangasinan, we happened to be there in the area celebrating our yearly religious activity. It was a Thursday morning and we were supposed to go to Baguio City but due to the heavy and continuous pouring of rains, we thought it would be risky if we continued as we would be caught on slippery roads or maybe even possible landslide. So we decided to go directly to San Fernando La Union instead to see Thunderbird Resort in Pura, La Union.

The Mediterranean design inspired by Santorini Islands of Greece captured us at first glance. The place is nice, peaceful and overlooking white sand beach South China sea. The sixty-five hectare resort has sports facilities and amenities like the Cliffs Golf & Beach Club, swimming pool, basketball area, water sports, jogging path at the boardwalk. The place is also conducive for meetings and conferences. They also offer a five star accommodation from deluxe room to deluxe suite.

Sadly we were not able to stay there and missed a chance to take more photos of the place because of the strong winds and heavy rains. My brother in-law who were with us didn’t want to stay near the sea at that time. But given a chance to visit again the Northern part of Luzon, we will really try the comfort and luxury of this resort. Places like this are where luxury, comfort and peacefulness collide. Also Outer Banks vacation rentals are really dream places to stay.

It’s been a week that I never had a chance to open my emails or even had an internet access. We just arrived from our Feast of Tabernacles held in one of the beach resorts in San Fabian, Pangasinan. However, the province was one of the highly affected during the wake of typhoon Peping that hit Northern Luzon in the last couple of days.

We were there in the Province of Pangasinan and La Union during the day the typhoon was hitting these Provinces. It was Thursday last week when supposedly we were to go Baguio to spend family outing but because of the heavy rains we decided to search for possible alternatives. So during that day we were in La Union searching for restaurants, hotels or resorts where we can spend overnight because the place in San Fabian, Pangasinan where we stayed is located between a river and a sea.

Maybe in my next post we could post about our experiences in the province during the typhoon. I will be needing weight loss pills due to the food escapades we had in one week of vacation.

Last holiday my wife and I decided to have another thrill adventure. We didn’t really plan to stay overnight apart from to visit Tagaytay to discover new restaurants and places to stay. We just decided to pack things for over night in case we will discover something exciting.

We told ourselves that almost all of the hotels would be fully booked since it’s a long holiday during that time. We did not even bothered to try any place in Tagaytay and headed further to Batangas instead and see some of the resorts that we saw in the internet. But due to the traffic congestion at that time that we were in Tagaytay, we decided to have our lunch there before going straight to Batangas and it was 2:00 pm already when we left Tagaytay.

On our way to Batangas, we passed by the Evercrest Golf and Country Club in Nasugbu. It is not our first time to see the place but the last time we were there was new year’s eve of 2008. We never realized that this was the time and chance to stay in the place. Luckily the club had a current promotion which is discounted overnight stay in the place.

We had a great stay that night although they didn’t have wi fi connection in every room apart from that in the restaurant and they only have local cable channel. If you want a quiet and relaxed atmosphere in the place you’re staying in, this is a place to stay for the family. No need to have central vacuum anymore since the place is surrounded by nature and green grass of the golf course.

You can let your kids swim in the swimming pool from the club near to the place for free since it is still part of the club. The breakfast area in their restaurant is so refreshing and relaxing too since it overlooking the golf course. I look forward to come back and stay in Evercrest again.

Another long weekend is up coming by August 29-31 since August 31 is a regular holiday. It is National Heroes Day here in the Philippines. Since it falls on a pay day (end of the month) I am sure as early as today Filipinos are now searching for a better, nice but cheap place to stay overnight for the family. As usual, outside the Metro are hot spots like Antipolo,  Rizal in the east, Batangas, Tagaytay, Cavite and Laguna in the South and Bulacan, Subic, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan and Baguio in the north.

If you have money outside the country trip is also a possibility but you have to sacrifice your Friday. Near places like Hong Kong and Singapore are possible places if you have money. You might also consider orlando vacations.

Hopefully we could find a nice out of town since we are planning to have an rest and relaxation spree out of town as well. Metro Manila is so hot for the past days because of some low pressure area in the country and we need a cooler place at the moment.

A little over a month from now and we will be having our yearly religious feast once again. Although we do not know the place yet where it will be held but usually we would celebrate it somewhere in Pangasinan.

During this one week celebration, we would be given one family day where we would go to places we want. Most likely, it would usually be Baguio. After all, it is barely an hour drive away from where we would always hold this religious activity.

Since we had a new member now in the family after my sister in-law got married, she wants her husband to see the city of Baguio. She was asking us to find a better family place to stay where we could find a villa or a big family room with two to three bedrooms. It also comes with a nice living room, a fire place and hopefully a HDTV.

Is anyone in the mood to suggest a nice place to stay? We will highly appreciate it.

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My family and I chance to visit and see Clark Freeport Zone once again. Located in Angeles Pampanga, Clark is a former United States Air force base in the Philippines, an American military facility from 1903 to 1991. After the American departure in 1991, it was converted into Clark Freeport Zone where the site of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport is also found.

We visited the place and saw a lot of place inside the Freeport. We explored the Clear Water Country Club, SM Clark, Fontana, Ang Bagong Nayong Filipino, Expo Filipino, Mimosa and lots of Duty Free shops.

In my next posts, I hope to tackle about our experiences in each of the place we visited and have some photos to go along the story. Right how, I just happened to be busy searching for some Amazon books online.