Footprints in the Sand

A photo we’ve taken about three and a half years ago during a trip to the beach with hubby and two friends we met through a basic photography class we enrolled that time. One day one of those friends invited us out of the blue to a breakfast in the Paradise Island Resort.

Looking at this photo and along with the other photos we’ve taken that breakfast in the beach resort brought back happy memories. Those two friends are both based abroad and were just here for a vacation when they took that photography class. Now got to step up and check on this location voiture maroc that one of those friends told me about when they were here during their vacation.

Looking at these Outer Banks rental homes though I just cannot help but wish we can go somewhere this summer. A nice rest house by the beach is one dream I used to have. It would be good for the family to stay there for a great summer vacation. My nephews and the little boy would surely have fun times to cherish. Well if only there is some place as nice and beautiful as those rental homes in NC that I have seen. Maybe a trip to the beach next week may just a plan that will do for now.

These Vjandep Pastel takes pride as the number 1 pastel in Camiguin. It is made at the popular Vjandep Bakeshop in Plaridel Street, Mambajao, Camiguin. Our fave has always been the original yema filling.

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A side trip to Cagayan de Oro’s Starbucks, the first in Mindanao, maybe a good treat too aside from going back to the White Island which I hope is still as beautiful as we remember it to be more than a decade ago! I have only been there one time and I want to go back again. It has been more than ten years since I have been to Camiguin. But we just bought Pastel a couple of weeks ago or every chance we find one.

My plan now is just for us to enjoy eating those days and I already have a few choices of places for us to eat at the mall. Hubby was telling me that knowing me, I would really need to burn off whatever I’d gain during those few days of our food trip as I look forward to it. There is just one place I want to go that does not have a branch there. I am still looking for the location of the nearest branch. i hope to find other options of places to eat there in the next few days.

The last thing they need in this short family vacation is any incident on the road involving the bikes falling off just in case just like what a happened a few years ago where the rope got loose when they were on a road trip too. Good thing they saw that before anything happened on the road when they stopped at a gasoline station to refuel.

Now they must have reached their vacation destination. Makes me think the boys and I need to go off to a short vacation ourselves and I want to be some where that i can also bring my bike. Hmmm got to think of some place to go.

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We were talking about this topic one time in our chats and since I am such a foodie here, she mentioned to me that she would like me to try out the different Restaurants there particularly those nice Restaurants London that some of her friends has mentioned to her as worth dining in. But since she is not that familiar with London since they live further away, she said we might need to do our research to get to know these places we plan to go to. I think though there is this web portal that is giving information and reviews of places to visit there and it can help us have an idea of which restos we might really wanna try if ever we do get there one day.

Aside from the restos, we might try too going in some of those Pubs London. I had a friend before who said this is something I must try visiting when and if I do get to visit London one day. There is this tourist attraction guide Qype where you can search for, learn about and read reviews about restaurants, bars, hotels, events, arts, shopping areas and best places and deals in London that will truly help your way around the place especially for those who are really that familiar yet there.

I really wish I do get to visit my sis there in London someday. It’ll surely be an exciting trip I’m looking forward to!