So the morning of the third day in Manila I got up and wandered around Malate finding breakfast donuts, a luxury for me in a place like China, and one I was happy to indulge. That day I took a bus ride out from the city to another town called Tagaytay to the south. It… Read More MRT, KTV, and JC
Last week I had the pleasant fortune of a few days off of work, giving me a four day weekend thanks to the midterm test period for my students. With a few weeks of lead time, I set about planning at trip to Manila, the capitol of the Philippines lying out in the South China… Read More Post-colonial Ambitions
This weekend began with a small group expedition Friday evening to Macau. For those unaware, Macau is a former Portuguese colony that was returned to China in 1999 after a good four hundred years or so of foreign rule. It is administered much like Hong Kong, with its own private government, currency, and strict border… Read More Wow for Macau
So I finally made it down to Hong Kong a couple weekends back. It was, and most likely remains, awesome. A funny string of events led to our travel party being composed of Andrew, myself, and a mutual friend from high school neither of us had seen in years. He was backpacking China, visiting another… Read More Hong Kong
Zak Abroad 