The - I've been somewhere no one else has - thread

[bhaexpress]

Sitting here now in my Garden beer in hand Laptop on table gentle tropical breeze and getting bitten to F@ck by mozzies...

Filipino mozzies are lightweights, you want bastards the ones in Georgia , USA are the size of spitfires.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Filipino mozzies are lightweights, you want bastards the ones in Georgia , USA are the size of spitfires.

I don't believe you. If that's true then how come they haven't taken over the world?

 

[manilaseagull]

Yes Peoples Park in the Sky

It was built by Marcos for Ronald Reagans visit which was canceled due to Marcos political Problems, The building was never finished, I was there a few weeks ago as it has a grand view of Lake Taal and it is a worse state now than ever,

Your mate's Ting Tong looks lovely!!

Macho? Is that Phillipino for "out of shape"!!

That is my daughter...

 

[User removed 4]

That is my daughter...

Well she didn't get her looks from you did she ?

 

[manilaseagull]

Which is pretty lucky as I still have my handsome "gwapo" looks.

 

[User removed 4]

Which is pretty lucky as I still have my handsome "gwapo" looks.

Whats a gwapo?

 

[bhaexpress]

I don't believe you. If that's true then how come they haven't taken over the world?

I had two big UV exterminators on our porch there and every morning the corpses had flowed over the top of the trays.

 

[manilaseagull]

Gwapo is Filipino for Handsome or good looking.

every day is a school day!

 

[bhaexpress]

Whats a gwapo?

Filipino for Gringo isn't it ?

 

[The Spanish]

Dont choose 'The Philippines' as your specialist subject on Mastermind BHAExpress.

 

[manilaseagull]

Dont choose 'The Philippines' as your specialist subject on Mastermind BHAExpress.

 

[Trufflehound]

Gwapo comes from the Spanish guapo.

Back in 1993 the Filipino for 'gringo' was "Hey Joe!" Have they moved on from that yet?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

'?Que pasa guapa?' was a useful tool on my gap year.

 

[manilaseagull]

Gwapo comes from the Spanish guapo.

Back in 1993 the Filipino for 'gringo' was "Hey Joe!" Have they moved on from that yet?

We (white foreigners) now all get called cano....for Americano!!!

Hey Joe died out when the American forces left but it is still heard mainly by kids in the provinces

 

[xenophon]

Kununurra, WA, Australia
Padangbai, Bali, Indonesia.
Rota Rua, New Zealand.
Salo, Lake Garda, Italy.

1 Check
2 Nope
3 Check
4 Nope

 

[xenophon]

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

Kashgar, China

Turpan, China

Perhentians, Malaysia

Ali, Tibet

Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal

 

[wellquickwoody]

Yup to all



Where was the one you stayed in? We stayed in one just south of Kapit, up the Rejang River.



Yup



Yup. Both dumps.



My aunt and uncle lived there for 20 years.












Yup.



Just a few times. I update the Fodor's guide to it.



Yup.



Yup. Friends of mine are building a guesthouse there as we speak.(Ask about mate's rates as from mid-2011...)






Yup. My Tho for the latter.




Yup



Five. Sussex. Two in New York state (the one near Rochester and Brighton Beach). Victoria. and has anyone else 'done' the one on South Island NZ, close to Dunedin?




Yup.



Just a few times. I update the Fodor's guide to it.



Yup to all. I spent Xmas '88 in Rotorua.



Yup to all.


How about Avarua, the Cook Islands
Dili, East Timor
Manado, Sulawesi
Ternate "City", Ternate Island, Indonesia


Places I wish I'd never been:
Bintauna, Sulawesi
Bangko, Sumatra
Oradea, Romania
Xoige, Gansu Province, China

Bet you haven't been to Cashes Green?

 

[kevinsmith]

Duni, Bulgaria

 

[sir albion]

Cayo coco CUBA

alghero SARDINIA

Ibiza

 

[The Mole]

Sorry

How about the Ladysmith Siege Museum ? Best spent R2 ever!!

Yes, did a very good tour of the Ladysmith battlefields - my Great Grandfather was held up in the siege and left a really interesting scrapbook (we discovered after my Grandad's death.

Given your address I guess there's no point in suggesting:
Pennington
King's Park
Greytown

How about Mafia Island, Tanzania