Maria Blogs

Labor Day Weekend is coming up … which means … SALE GALORE!
One of the weird things I learned when I first came to the US is that my relatives do BIG shopping for the season’s clothes, furnitures, accessories, etc. during the last days of the season [except day after Thanksgiving, when Shopping is the order [...]

Can you believe that?! I never even had a summer [or a spring or winter, or anything!]. It’s almost Labor day and that means countdown to end of the entertainment season in Provincetown.
However, Provincetown is by no means going to be a dead and deserted town like it used to be. Merchants are pushing for [...]

My maternal grandfather died of Alzheimer’s disease before wide research has been done on it and certainly way before it became a commonly-used word. A well respected pillar of the community, reduced to wandering around in a daze for days and leaving everyone gripped in terror of where he could have ended up. He would [...]

To have that “old world” feel, Rome IS the destination of choice. Afterall, it has been one of the biggest and most successful empire in history. Rome can be very overwhelming, but greatly satisfying.
For the Pinoy, rome is a must-see, a place never to be missed if one happens to be travelling through Europe. A [...]

I like the US, I do .. every country I travelled to has been unique and memorable. But the holy grail of travel for me would be Europe. the old world. Where everything is sooo steeped in history. That and the ease of travel between members of the European Union [thank god for thinking diplomats!]. [...]