04-26-2024 Shangri- La/Mactan Festival
I started out my day having breakfast at the Belmont Hotel. I get three eggs scrambled with cheese, Coffee, water and about 6 pieces of bacon (in a 4 star hotel) for about the same price I would get a breakfast sandwich at Waffle House back home. I’m not knocking Waffle House, I love their […]
Iron Man Triathlon – 2024
The international Iron man event was held here in Mactan-Newtown this past weekend. Lot’s of people from all over the world were here to watch, cheer on and compete. A lot of people that live here in the condos left town for the weekend be cause of the noise and traffic. It was certainly loud […]
Hospital stay 4-14-2024
Heavy sigh, well, I can say I brought this on myself but it wasn’t on purpose. As most of you know the extended air travel had a major impact my left leg muscle system. I had sever pain due to tense muscles that I let go for too long. After a month of self therapy, […]
The Belmont Crew 4-9-2024
Meet the Belmont Breakfast Crew. While this only part of the crew, they all are very nice. The Belmont is a hotel across the street from my apartment so I eat there once or twice a week. Melky is part of their leadership. She is studying International hospitality and hopes to go to work on […]
Cebu Ride along verses Mactan-Newtown (Where I Live)
Some of you have asked to see what type of traffic and life style there is in Cebu. It actually has a wide range of variety. The first video is about 5 minutes long showing different segments in Cebu while the second video shows the contrast of where I live on the island of Mactan […]
Dive site 3-26-24
Here are the activities for the past couple of days. Sunday afternoon there was a light rain. Very pleasant like a spring rain back home. Tuesday, Jan and I went to a new dive site (for me). There were lots of dive shops around, the water was clear and the current was not bad at […]
SM Mall – 3-19-24
It looks like I’m going to make Breakfast at the Shangra-la a Sunday breakfast regular. Here is a sample of the landscaping at the front of the lobby. It looks like they have introduced a mascot for the hotel. I’m not sure what it’s suppose to be, some kind of bird I suppose. After breakfast […]
Back in the Saddle(?) 3-14-24
My apologies to you guys. In an effort to start a new venture, I messed up my blog so I had to have it restored from an archive. Needless to say, I lost some posts so I’ll just pick up from here. I started my day with going to breakfast at Shralanka hotel. They have […]
Slow days 2-24-24
The last couple of days have been a little slow, I’m still recovering from my Sciatica pain. I have made progress but it’s still there. I met a young mother and her two daughters in the lobby while they were waiting to check in. They are here from Korea, Gina has brought them here to […]
Alaya Mall
Before I headed to the Mall I decided to have a little pick me up. Acaia berry Cheese cake and a Lattee. 🙂 After saying good day to the friendly staff (Steff and Noah) I hailed a taxi for the 30 minute ride. The ride to he mall gave a better picture of how many […]