Baguio Insider

You may have noticed, from my previous posts, how serious this blog has been the past few weeks. This is not as originally intended.

I had wanted to post my Baguio photo collection here one by one, and tell you more about why this is “my virtual heaven on earth.” How I wish I could, like Connie, regale site visitors with snippets of daily family life, or my travels, or what I cooked for breakfast. What happens is, I tend to put all the wonderful things about Baguio in the Go Baguio! website and all the serious stuff here. Also, I have been voluntarily and happily “stuck” at Atenara House for weeks due to our many wonderful guests and I really haven’t been able to edit my photos, or go out and take some more, or actually enjoy Baguio except within the confines of my wonderful house.

The great thing about Atenara is that it has ALL the typical “Baguio” features: a garden filled with pine trees, large rooms, spacious lounging areas, a great fireplace in a really good neighborhood. It’s so large and there’s just so much to do everyday that I do not feel the need to leave it at all!

Photos of Atenara may be found in our web album. A friend of Connie’s and mine, Ida La’O exclaimed once that my photos do not do the place justice. It is actually prettier “in person.” The camera is just unable to take the whole place in.

Living in Baguio, in general, and at the Atenara, in particular, is like being on vacation everyday!

But I digress…

What I really wanted to say is that, in the next few posts, I intend to tell you more about my experiences living in Baguio, the restaurants I eat in, our wonderful “pasalubong” items, and Baguio’s little secrets. Of course I have been threatening to write articles like “The Truth Behind the Meningococcemia Scare” and “If I were Mayor of Baguio…” but you’ll just have to be a little more patient.

Maybe I just had to get the flyover, Korean and airconditioning “issues” out of the way first so I can move on to the lighter side of life. Baguio is my home. I was a Manila girl without province to go home to. And many, many years ago, I decided that Baguio was to be it. This is where I am happy, concretization notwithstanding (here I go again!).

Hahaha!

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Photo Caption:

Let me start my Baguio Photo Collection with the best photo I have ever taken in my life. I took this a few years ago at Inn Rocio on Kisad Road. I used to live at Burnhamview Condominium in front of it and take my breakfast at the inn everyday. On one beautiful morning, I saw this bee contemplating the best-looking sunflower of the bunch and kept saying to him, “Huwag kang gagalaw (do not move)!” And he obliged me by staying there long enough for me to catch the perfect wild sunflower photo against the backdrop of pine trees and a typical bright blue Baguio sky!