As per request, we have added a Google News page about Samar.
Posted in News, Updates | Tagged samar
A new airline is comming to Calbayog. Cebu Pacific Airlines has already opened it’s ticketing office in Calbayog, and is scheduled to start service, between Calbayog’s Sabang Airport, and Manila, on Feburary 18, 2009. According to Cebu Pacific’s local representative, Analyn S. Amoguez, the flights will be Monday, Wednessday, and Friday mornings.
Currently Zest Airways (formerly [...]
Posted in Flights, News, Travel | Tagged airlines, Calbayog, Cebu Pacific, Manila, President Arroyo, Sabang Airport, samar
While I’m still on the subject of drying things, let’s talk about cooking. In the Philippines, and especially in Samar, many people can not afford a nice kitchen. The lucky ones have an oven with stovetop using LPG, a mixture of propane and butane. Next level down doesn’t have an oven, just an LPG stovetop. [...]
Posted in National Highway, Poverty | Tagged charcoal, coconut, cooking, drying, fires, LPG, National Highway, philippines, Poverty, samar, wood
Rice is an important agricultural product of Samar. It grows very well in this humid, tropical environment. But drying the rice is another story. Every year, too much rice is spoiled before it ever gets dry. Recently the Philippines government gave away many rice dryers to poverty stricken rice farmers, in an attempt to prevent [...]
Posted in Agriculture, National Highway, Poverty | Tagged Agriculture, drying, farmers, humid, National Highway, philippines, Poverty, product, rice, rice dryers, samar, tropical
Even in America, it is common to see people hanging their clothes out to dry…when the weather is nice. But when the weather is bad, most people have access to an electric/gas dryer. Either they own one, or there is a self searve laundry mat with one. In the Philippines, things are very different. I [...]
Posted in National Highway, Travel | Tagged clothes, drying, National Highway, philippines, samar
One of the reasons why it is so difficult to travel in Samar is because of the conditions of the roads, including the National Highway. Here are some previously unpublished pictures of the road conditions, from my recent trips from Calbayog to Catbalogan. Before I get started with the pictures, though, I want to appologize [...]
Posted in Calbayog, Catbalogan, National Highway, Travel | Tagged blacktop, Calbayog, Catbalogan, cement, National Highway, road construction, samar
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