This year is the most-traveled summer in my entire earth life. Imagine going out-of-town almost every weekend. It was a blast!
Circle Farm - Bacoor, Cavite: This is a new water resort in the heart of Bacoor across SM Molino. It is a nice place for small gatherings like my birthday.
Villa Estancia Resort - Tagaytay: Overnight stay in a nipa hut rooms without air conditioner. The cool breeze from the veranda is more than enough to keep you under your blanket. It was my first time to have a dip in a cold swimming pool as early as seven in the morning; on a high land.
Unnamed Beach - Bolinao, Pangasinan: We called it virgin beach considering the place is still unexplored. It was memorable to us because this was the first time we went swimming with my family and relatives from Bulacan and Dagupan. We stayed in a very cheap big house overnight; then amazingly woke-up without the salt water some kilometers away from the shore.
Puerto Galera – Mindoro: I am quite sad with how nature is slowly being exploited. But because it is my first time to visit this place, I tried enjoying the trip with a new crowd. Since it was a long weekend, there was a massive exodus of people from Manila. Good thing, the Mindoro sling save the day.
Volet’s Resort - Dasmarinas, Cavite: This is a water resort with a lot of giant slides and a wave pool. It is the official summer outing with my family to celebrate my mother’s birthday.
Wonder Island – Calamba, Laguna: Our company’s venue for the annual summer outing that turn-out to be the “advance party” summer outing. The typhoon postponed the event but because we are already in the place, we just enjoyed the stay by dipping in the warm pool despite the heavy rain and gusty winds.
Rosewood Resort - Calatagan, Batangas: A get-away from our busy schedule to treat a dear friend who will be going out of the country very soon. It started with a road trip to Batangas without a confirmed reservation of a place to stay. It is an experience full of “firsts”.
Baguio City: Mines View Park, The Mansion, Philippine Military Academy, Good Shepherd, Strawberry Farm, Camp John Hay, Burnham Park, Bell Church, Session Road Night Market, and SM. What more can I say? A cold night chilled with Cruisers.
Here are some of my summer shots:
(Clockwise from left) Mines View, Circle Farm, Bell Church, Galera.
(Clockwise from left) Drinking session Baguio, Bolinao bagoong, John Hay lamp. 
thanks for visiting Gwen… that was a year ago.. their office is in Calamba, Laguna.. i will ask our HR dept for the contact number…. then i’ll get back to you…
Posted by jong at February 17, 2007, 12:16 amhi gwen.. here is the contact number of wonder island resort…
manila landline - 520-8556
cel number - 0922- 503-3151 look for Rachel
mister jong, just read ur blog on summer 2006, just want to know if u have a contact numberor details how to get to the unnamed beach in bolinao, pangasinan ..i’m planning to go there tis holy week, thank you
Posted by carlo at March 19, 2007, 3:20 pmI’m sorry Carlo. It was my cousin who coordinated the trip. Unfortunately, he has no contact number of the place.
Posted by jong at March 20, 2007, 6:48 amhi jong! just want to ask if you have a contact number of circle island resort?!
thanks…
We’ll appreciate it very much if you can give us contact details of the place. Thank you.
hi jen… i do not have the contact details of circle island resort… we just went there as a walk-in guest… it is located across SM Molino…
thanks for the site visit…
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Hope you can help me out especially since you’ve been to Wonder Island. We’ve been wanting to visit the place but we don’t know who to contact/where to place our booking. We’ll appreciate it very much if you can give us contact details of the place. Thank you.
Posted by gwen marquez at February 16, 2007, 11:10 pm