One thing we missed the past year and counting is traveling. We used to travel a lot whether for leisure or work. My last foreign travel was in December 2019. We went to Singapore to watch the U2 concert there and celebrate our wedding anniversary. My last official trip overseas was for a conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka in September 2019. That was my new place I'd visited for 2019.
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| A Hindu temple in Colombo (photo taken during a tour of the city in September 2019) |
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| Marveling at a view of Kandy, the old capital of Sri Lanka |
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| The crowd that turned up for the U2 concert at the National Stadium in Singapore last December 2019 |
My last long distance domestic travel was to Zamboanga City in late January 2020. I was supposed to travel there in March last year to conduct field surveys for our project but then the lockdowns came. The timing was good because it was announced a couple of days before our trip and we just canceled it altogether. We could have been stranded in Zamboanga for at least a month before we got the chance to go home.
Since then, we have been limited in our travels and so I was quite glad there was an opportunity to get out of the house and have a long drive when Metro Manila and surrounding provinces (what we now refer to as NCR plus) transitioned to General Community Quarantine (GCQ) for a long period in 2020. That trip was with neighbors who we came to know and become friends with during the lockdown. The trip to Ugu Bigyan's place in Tiaong, Quezon was well worth it for the food, pottery and fellowship.
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| Ugu Bigyan's pottery is one of the finest in the country |
We now look forward again to the next trip as we again transition from MECQ to GCQ. That might be a trip to Caliraya (which was supposed to be in January 2021 but which we had to postpone due to the weather).
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