Over the time ive been involved and then married my wife I have met people from all walks of life. Some are rich some are poor but mainly all are looking for a partner in life. A lot of the problems that occur between foreign and filipina relationships are due to the simple fact that [...]

A very common thing that is sent to the Philippines is literally thousands of boxes of goods each month from all over the world. Mainly from OFWs or people married to foreigners. Basically its a box filled with gifts from abroad. So what are the best things to fill them with from the UK and [...]

10. An Income – Something that the family can do but be very cautious on what you invest in. Ive heard all sorts of horror stories of families falling out. Vehicles being left to run until broken aswell as other things. Main thing is use a bit of common sense and discuss what is [...]

Im not one for beating around the bush but simply the deal I got from E-Bookers was cheaper than the offers I had for the flight home to Cebu but also the fact that it was a better airline (Cathy Pacific) which also has a better and faster air route. On top of that the [...]

Someone asked me earlier this week about taking money to the Philippines. Many of the sites on the net are out of date or simply designed for the American market. The truth is if you change your money in the UK to Dollars then change it again to Pesos your going to lose twice on [...]

One thing that many people dont realise when moving to or retiring to the Philippines is the fact that the pace of life is a lot slower than they expect. Often things take days to do that would somewhere else take hours. Getting isolated can become easily done and more often than not people arent [...]

One of my love and hate relationships i have in the Philippines is driving.. I love the independence but hate the fact that so many people drive badly but its not always the motorist. Today i was at a junction in central Cebu and there is no straight on quite simply because the road is [...]

Something surprised me this week due to a few things happening to a friend of mine. Someone who has done everything he could to bring his fiancee to him. He had gone through the process of helping family, visiting the Philippines and had spent a lot of time and money putting together paperwork for visas [...]

Today we had a native turkey and April tried best to make it as a traditional Christmas as possible. We had gravy, stuffing and all the trimmings even the turkey tasted good.. but whats a Christmas in the Philippines without it being a Philippine Christmas. The thing I like about the Philippines is its not [...]

 Generally im not one to buy E-Books and certainly not ones from the Philippines.. why?
Because generally they are very poor quality and just a quick money making scheme. Tie that with the fact that many of the books are upto a decade out of date they are pretty useless. But I decided to start advertising [...]