Baguio Insider

A lady from Germany emailed me an inquiry for lodging in July at my bed & breakfast inn, and she specifically insisted on airconditioned rooms. I explained to her that Baguio hotels and other lodging accommodations, not even those that charge Php4,000/night for a room for 2 provide airconditioning (see photo). The whole of Baguio, even our golf courses, are “naturally air-cooled!”

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And what does this news have to do with Baguio City?

1. First, I was asked last December to design the Go Dumaguete! website, and I will have to go there to do my research (junket!!) because some folks liked the Go Baguio! website and wanted the same for their “City of Gentle People.”

2. Except that it’s a lot of sand and sea, Dumaguete is much like Baguio City: laid back lifestyle, lots of university students, koreans arriving in droves, small town where everybody knows everybody, jump off point to Apo and Siquijor Islands (like Baguio is to Sagada and Banaue), the Boulevard purportedly designed by Daniel H. Burnham (yes, it’s the Burnham Park guy, our city’s urban planner), everything cheap (ok, cheaper than here even), a thriving cottage industry, and a beautiful natural environment.

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Merry Christmas to All!

I went down to Manila via the De Luxe Victory Liner bus on December 24th to spend Christmas with my family. And since Victory Liner refused to accept reservations for bus tickets for December 25th, insisting on a “first come first served” policy, I took a car and driver up to Baguio the next day because I did not relish spending any part of Christmas day standing around in the dinky Cubao terminal with the mass exodus of people, lined up to “beg” for a seat, not having a choice of which type of bus I was to ride up in.

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Go Baguio! Your Guide to Baguio City Philippines is such a dynamic website, its pages updated almost daily, so one would think there’s no need to maintain a web journal for it. Why don’t I just keep adding pages instead of trying so hard to learn how to customize a blog?

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