If you have a foreign partner, a client abroad or an expat friend, you have probably been asked this already. They read that the Philippines now has a digital nomad visa, they picture a month in Siargao with a laptop, and they want to know where to apply. The honest answer, as of 11 October […]
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Iceland is one of those destinations that’s just dying for you to rent a car and explore. Of course, you can see Iceland on organized tours, but having your own wheels gives you a completely different experience. There are waterfalls tumbling off cliffs, black-sand beaches, glaciers, steaming geothermal areas, tiny fishing villages, and viewpoints that seem
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Your first foreign client pays USD 900 for the month. At today’s rate that is about PHP 56,000, more than a lot of office jobs in Manila, and suddenly the laptop-on-a-beach thing feels close. Then you look up Malaysia’s nomad visa and see USD 24,000 a year. Thailand’s wants half a million baht sitting in
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Charles and I started traveling together back in 2003, when it was just the two of us with backpacks, a loose itinerary, and a whole lot of enthusiasm for seeing the world. Since then, we’ve explored more than 40 countries together, built a travel business, and spent nearly 18 years traveling with our two kids.
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Photo: Paulo O / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) At 6:22am on 23 December 2019, a traveler from Halifax, Canada, stepped out of NAIA and took the photo above: paper lanterns overhead, carts piled with bags, and a crowd so thick the security guard could barely see the road. That is the part of coming
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New York City is one of those places that can feel slightly overwhelming before you arrive. There are five boroughs, dozens of neighborhoods, thousands of hotels, and an endless list of things to see and do. So, where should you actually stay in New York City? Having visited New York a few times ourselves, our
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We’ve tested a few larger BLUETTI power stations over the years, and they’ve been useful when we wanted serious backup power. The tradeoff is pretty obvious, though. Bigger batteries take up more room, weigh more, and aren’t necessarily something you casually grab on the way out the door. That’s what made the BLUETTI Elite 100
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A jumbo balikbayan box from California to Metro Manila costs about USD 88 to ship. That is roughly PHP 110 a kilo if you pack it to 50 kg. Put the same 50 kg on an Emirates flight as airport excess baggage and you could pay USD 1,250, or more than PHP 78,000. Same pasalubong,
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In 2025, 885,100 Filipinos flew to Japan, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. That is about 2,400 Filipinos landing in Japan every day, and almost all of them needed a visa first. The route to that visa looks very different from when we wrote our first Japan guides in 2022. There is a visa
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After years of travel, we’ve learned one thing for sure: something unexpected will happen eventually. We’ve dealt with cancelled flights, lost luggage, buses that were supposedly air conditioned but very definitely were not, and even accidentally overstaying a visa. Some travel problems are annoying. Others can get expensive or stressful pretty quickly. You can’t plan
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