Sorry for my absence last week. I just went on sort of a “whirlwind” trip to a new area that I had never visited before. I visited Zamboanga City, Tawi Tawi and Basilan. It was a great trip, very interesting, fun and also educational! Because of my absence, I was unable to post anything here […]
Travel Around Mindanao
I think this is really the dilemma of a filipina wife before moving here. Worried so much about the safety of the husband and kids. I can understand the fear because I did experienced that before moving back here. I was also worried before because in the news they always said it’s so bad here […]
Adjusting Here In The Philippines
When Bob and I plan on moving here in the late 90’s, I was the one that’s leery about it beeing Bob and the kids never experience the lifestyle of living here in the Philippines. When I confided our plans on moving here to my Filipina friends they immediately say “Are you guys crazy” or […]
How will you choose where to live?
As you can imagine, through this blog and my other blogs, I get a lot of e-mails from people who are thinking of moving here. I also talk to a lot of other ex-pats who live here. Often times, if you are in the mall or whatever, you see other foreigners. Sometimes I strike up […]
How much is it to buy ____?
Let’s face it, a lot of the people who come from abroad to live here in the Philippines do so because the cost of living here is very low! Even knowing that things are inexpensive, I get a lot of people asking me for prices of certain products. Because of this, I want to list […]
Hello Everybody!
Hi there my name is Feyma Martin, wife of Bob. I am going to tell you what’s my thoughts about living here in the Philippines, having lived in the States for 10 years. I do hope I would be of help to those filipinas that live abroad for a long time and thinking of moving […]