What’s hot and what’s not in cool, cool Baguio City Philippines
Great news!
According to The Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Baguio Centennial Commission, headed by mayoral uncle Virgilio Bautista, is planning to build a museum at the old Diplomat Hotel location on Dominican hill because, as they say, it has a good view of the city plus there are trees all around the grounds.
I do not bring my cars around in Baguio anymore, except to Camp John Hay and Baguio Country Club. I walk along Leonard Wood or take one of the thousands of taxis that we have during those rare times I go ‘downtown,’ which is about 1.5k from my house. There’s just no parking anywhere, you see. And this is because the locals take up all the parking on Session Road to sell their second hand cars. Session is one big used car display these days, with signs tacked onto the rear windows with cellphone numbers. How much does this cost these people? P20/day, unlimited hours. That’s just Php600/month. Read More…
by Jonathan Best
Today,
When American architect Daniel Burnham first drew up his city plan for
Apparently, the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA) subsidizes Burnham Park operations to the tune of Php5,000,000.00. And it has recently chosen to delay the issuance thereof because it apparently is dissatisfied with the way the city government is maintaining it.
Here we go again! First they want to set up a flea market, albeit a temporary one, to ‘uglify’ Burnham Park and give the street hawkers and itinerant vendors a ‘home’ using an area of the park considered ‘idle land.’ Helloooo — parks are supposed to be idle. Like nothing on them except benches, and the occasional activity. That’s the reason for their existence — to give us some peace and quiet and allow us to breathe. Why are our government officials so eager to stuff crappy-looking businesses into it? As if the eateries there, including the restaurants on either side are not decrepit enough.
