After our last trip which ended in November 2006, we were quite ready for our "normal" lives in Amsterdam. But once you're stung by the travel bug, it will start itching again soon enough. And when scratching didn't relieve us, we started making...

Just posting a couple shots from our last morning at Hadrian's Hotel in Kas. We fell in love with the owner's dog, Willie. I wanted pack him in my bag and take him home with me!

Rain or no rain, today we just have to make our city walk. We are here for like 4 days now and we still haven't taken a proper walk around. So that is on the schedule for this cloudy Wednesday. We start of to the old town through the Sw. Anny street, where we first pass the Anny church and later on the Collegium Maius. We wanted to visit both but the Collegium isn't open when we get there, so we have to skip it. Then our tour continues through the picturesque streets to the Szczepanski s...

We went to the U Babci Maliny restaurant because one of the girls at our hostel recommended it. We were looking for a place to eat typical Polish food but that also had a nice and comfortable interior. The name "U babci Maliny" means something like "At grandma Maliny's place". At the logo of the place you can see grandma, with funny little glasses, traditional clothing, a heavy belly and blushing cheeks :) Though this restaurant feels pretty touristy there were a lot of locals around when ...

Villa Antolin is a cute, clean little hotel that would be a good place to stay if you would like to spend overnight in Alaminos City, Pangasinan, Philippines for going to see the Hundred Islands because this is very near the tourism center and where the boat station is. The two double-bed room's price was at 1500 pesos per night for this off peak season but we managed to negotiate to 1200 pesos per night. What I liked about the place was that it was still quite new so everything was clean....