ASIN: B007LGYG56
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 110
"Three years ago I'd never given a thought to visiting the Philippines. It wouldn't have appeared in even my top hundred places to visit. Come to that, I'd never thought of re-marrying."So starts Johnnie Johnson's Philippines travelogue, a fascinating diary of his two-month stay.Johnnie finds Manila a city of confusing contrasts but he's off to rural Central Luzon, where the beauty of the rice fields captivates him."Had you seen it in a painting you would have complained that the colour was just too green, too bright."Johnnie spent much of his time in Papaya, a small town in Nueva Ecija."The writing is so vivid – funerals, street urchins, visits to the dentist, the village barber, the role of the 'helper'. I really felt I was experiencing it all at first hand. -- Anne Chetwynd-Stapylton, poet and traveller
"This is a lively and often very amusing travelogue," writes Richard Holdsworth ...
