- Rotterdam for the first time
- Home base
- September 28, 2020-September 20, 2021 (10 am)
- Amsterdam, pt. 1
- October 10-11, 2020
- Went to borrow Tito Boy's rice cooker and kettle, got drunk, visited the Rijksmuseum the next day
- The Hague, pt. 1
- December 23-26, 2020
- Cold beach with the Filipino Network
- Christmas dinner with the De Leon's
- Utrecht, pt. 1
- Utrecht, pt. 2
- Kinderdijk
- Delft, pt. 1
- January 9-10, 2020
- To be 28 and to have a room of one's own
- Nijmegen and Arnhem
- March 1, 2021
- Briefly crossed to the German border and passed by a pond at Krakenburg
- Shout out sa Versailles liquor store
- Dordrecht
- March 3, 2021
- Shout out sa Nobel's Brood
- Maastricht
- April 7, 2021
- A DIY spa
- Shout out sa Local Cafe for recommending Blanche Dael for coffee beans and Drankenshop Bams for the genever
- To be in the company of real friends
- Noordwijkerhout
- April 17, 2021
- For the tulips
- First time on a fixed gear bike
- A beautiful day to lose an earring
- Amsterdam, pt. 2
- May 24-30, 2021
- Amsterdam in an emergency
- A spring of becoming
- Amsterdam, pt. 3
- June 12, 2021
- Watched a play, Playboy of the Western World
- Still very much in love and it hurts
- Berlin
- June 17-29, 2021
- "You're in Berlin because you feel like a failure." (Dead Ladies Project, Jessa Crispin)
- Rehearsing death, learning to be free. Rock bottom to gay renaissance. Dalawang tibo sa Berlin!
- Realization in retrospect: I needed to be able to look myself in the mirror. In Berlin, I wrote into my wounds and suffered for it. Self-knowledge is no walk in the park.
- Malta, pt. 1
- July 12-17, 2021
- Hot Maltese Summer
- "Travel only with those you love." (Ernest Hemingway)
- A beautiful trip to lose my Conjugal Dictatorship tee to
- Malta, pt. 2
- July 17-22, 2021
- Only slightly adventurous, regained my solitude
- From a wine bottle which I will always remember: "The gods brought me to the island Ogygia, where Calypso lives, she received me and loved me excessively and care for me."
- Amsterdam, pt. 4
- July 31, 2021
- Came to Amsterdam to visit a friend, left with my teenage insecurities at the start of Pride month
- Leiden
- August 3, 2021
- Hortus Botanicus Leiden
- Therapy session number 2 and the process of trying to be okay
- Happy birthday Mommy Ester! Thank you for the strength to book my flight home home
- The Hague, pt. 2
- August 7, 2021
- Happy birthday, Kitkat!
- Visited the only Filipino restaurant in the Netherlands and the food was meh
- Delft, pt. 2
- August 12, 2021
- Finally met Maita and checked out some Delfts blue pottery, sourdough, coffee, alak walking tour
- Be the Filipino restaurant you want to see in this world!
- The Hague, pt. 3
- August 26-27, 2021
- Sleepover at Ishka's! Nijmegin night!
- Home cooked meals, a lot of walking including for cigarettes at midnight which ended in a juts run instead; Den Haagse market and the Hague Antique and Book Market
- Amsterdam, pt. 5
- August 29- September 2, 2021
- Amsterdam not in an emergency. A gay Quintos reunion!
- Finished re-reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, PH-Latin American Brunch, visited the Van Gogh Museum and a music store, chilled, cooked, rested
- Amsterdam, pt. 6
- September 10-15, 2021
- Weekend before graduation retreat sa Tagaytay
- Tito in Sicily; bumisita si Mareng Juhee
- Finally got a work of art from the flea market + a Le Creuset braadpan
- Katwijk
- September 12, 2021
- The Sea Near Katwijk by Jan Toorop with Ishka
- Amsterdam as base
- Home base from September 20, 2021-November 16, 2021
- Rotterdam as visitor, pt. 1
- September 24-25, 2021
- Met Miguel after 2 years (!)
- Made it to Gaby's birthday lunch (almost didn't, glad I did, missed my best friend)
- Malmö, pt. 1
- October 5-7, 2021
- Visited Kiel for warmth
- Stockholm
- October 7-8, 2021
- Alone and lonely in a strange city; relearning how to live with loneliness and watching a movie to soothe anxiety
- Swedish music tour! From the ABBA Museum to a live music show at the mall
- Malmö, pt. 2
- October 8-11, 2021
- Met the Filipino community with some honorary Filipinos; dinner and random yayaan night
- #np Tanging Yaman by Kiel Suarez
- Köln
- October 11-15,2021
- Visited Tita P, went on a romp through family history, and it felt like 2 weeks
- At least nasimulan ang F building cookbook and was reminded that life is too short for bad company
- The Hague, pt. 4
- October 15-16
- Reunion with the Filipino Network + lunch with UP alum at the De Leon's
- Finally, Mauritshuis to visit Rachel Ruysch
- Time with Ishka: brunch, beer, dropped by Pinoy store
- "Here's to moving slowly" (random sign at the mall)
- Zuid-Holland is in the heart
- Rotterdam as visitor, pt. 2
- October 16-17, 2021
- Is it the place or the friends that make a place a home?
- Dinner with old friends Diana, Byron, and Ember + stayed with Ember and Momo
- Lisbon, pt. 1
- October 20-October 23, 2021
- Alone for a bit, moved hotels way too much, saw Tito Boy for dinner, spent time with friends in Lisbon
- Caldas das Rainha
- October 24-October 28, 2021
- Fatima to buy the statue, country home living, saw some waves at Nazare, Juhee arrives from Paris
- Traveling fatigue fully hit
- Lisbon, pt. 2
- October 28-November 2,2021
- I enjoyed the city much more the second time
- Most expensive meal of the year!
- Barcelona
- November 2-9, 2021
- Big city vibe, briefly opened my thesis, visited Camp Nou and saw Xavi
- Paris, pt. 2
- November 10, 2021
- Quite easily one of my favorite cities
- Amsterdam, pt. 6
- Amsterdam as Filipino in distress from November 16-24, 2021
- Rotterdam as visitor, pt. 3
- November 23, 2021
- Visited Kunsthal Museum for the Ballroom Culture Exhibit
- Ortigas in quarantine
- November 25-December 5, 2021
- Last stop before Quezon City
- Quezon City, the city of my final destination
dec 27 2020 ∞
apr 10 2022 +