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		<title>having fun in Pan de Amerikana, Marikina</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago we were in Marikina with&#160;a Brittish-Filipino couple. While going around we wanted to drink&#160;something and take a little rest.&#160;We went to Pan de Amerikana, a restaurant,&#160;bread shop and&#160;cafe in Marikina, barangay Conception Dos. The place is&#160;founded&#160;in 1950&#160;as a bake shop where you can buy several kinds of fresh baked bread and pandesal. It has developed in a restaurant where one can have breakfast and lunch and even an early dinner. (closing time daily at 7 PM) They still sell the high quality pandesal and bread. Outside of the restaurant the decor is a windmill. Why a windmill ?? I do not know. The interior can best be described as very surprising. It is a kind of jungle garden with a pond containing several gold fish and koi. Many live plants and nice ornaments decorating the place. You have to see for your self. There are many tables tyo serve the customers, they even have a kind of easy chairs for just relaxing. One wall is made of glass with plants behind and in front of it. Along the glass water is running&#160;if&#160;it is a waterfall.&#160; It has a stage where a band can play and my [...]<hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">March 2, 2010</a>, Cas writes: Hallo Jan,

Looks a nice place to visit. Will keep it in mind.
Guess you cannot play Mahjong unless you bring it with you?

Hope to hear from you and your next trip.
Cas</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">March 2, 2010</a>, Jan writes: Hi Cas,
Yes, you have to bring your own set. They do not provide MahJongg sets.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">March 19, 2010</a>, Des writes: Hi Jan, 

I've always wanted to visit this place but I thought this was badly hit by Ondoy last year? 

Just wanted to verify since my friends and I are thinkling of dropping by anytime this month. ;)</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">March 19, 2010</a>, Jan writes: Hi Des,
Thanks for visiting my website.
Pan de Amerikana is situated in a higher situated area of marikina and was not affectyed with Ondoy. Just the lower area along the Marikina River was badly affected and flooded, but at the moment you will not see anything anymore from it. Everything has been cleaned and is as it was before.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">March 22, 2010</a>, Des writes: Thanks for the reply, Jan! 

I love this site, by the way! As a matter of fact, it's already included in my Favorites Bar.  ;-) 

Glad to know you're enjoying your stay in our country. 

God bless!</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">March 22, 2010</a>, Jan writes: Hi Des,
I am glad to be able to help you.
Thanks for visiting my site.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">September 6, 2010</a>, <a href='http://journeyofrenzseries.webs.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>reneboy l. julagting</a> writes: nice.. its good... there is no thong hits there??  hehehe...</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">November 8, 2010</a>, Cagayan de Oro map writes: Wow.. such a nice place to relax.. wish I can go there. </li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">November 8, 2010</a>, Jan writes: It's just one flight going to Manila !!</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">April 28, 2011</a>, Josh writes: Hi! how do we go about prenup pictorial in your branch? :-) on May 10, 2011</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">April 29, 2011</a>, Jan writes: Hi Josh,
You better contact the owner for that question.
I was just a visitor.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">June 17, 2011</a>, jeremmie writes: Hi,
 what medium do you use for baking bread? is it firewood or gas or electricity?
Is there any chance that you liketo try a briquetted log type charcoal? 
Can you passto the owner my querrie?
thanks</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">June 17, 2011</a>, Jan writes: Jeremmie,
Better vist the website of Pan de Amerikana. There is a way to ask questions and leave comments.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">October 23, 2011</a>, andrea joyce writes: is it possible if i choose this as my pre nup venue?? is there any charges?? how much?</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/having-fun-in-pan-de-amerikana-marikina/">October 23, 2011</a>, Jan writes: you should ask them, not me....</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/bicycle-in-marikina/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: bicycle in Marikina">bicycle in Marikina</a><br />Just a picture of a nice small bicycle, taken in Marikina near the public market.

</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/dancing-dog-in-marikina-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: dancing dog in Marikina">dancing dog in Marikina</a><br />When I was visiting the market in Marikina, this man and his dog passed by. The man showed me that his dog could dance.
</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/christmas-display-in-marikina-city-philippines/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Christmas display in Marikina City Philippines">Christmas display in Marikina City Philippines</a><br />Marikina City has recovered from the ONDOY flooding dissaster. I wrote about it in several posts earlier. 
It's Christmas time now. Marikina City has made a nice display for this event by telling the story of Christmas. It is told</li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &#169; ExpatInThePhilippines.com 2010<br /> <font color=#000000>&#171;PLEASE&#160;NOTE:&#160;&#160;You&#160;may&#160;be&#160;reading&#160;stolen&#160;content.&#160;Please&#160;visit&#160;the&#160;<a href="http://expatinthephilippines.com">author&#39;s site</a>&#160;to&#160;read&#160;the&#160;original,&#160;copyrighted&#160;material,&#160;and&#160;find&#160;even&#160;more&#160;great&#160;related&#160;content.&#187;</font><br />
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		<title>trip to Tagaytay, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first day of this trip you can find here Day two, after our breakfast, we drove around again to find the local Mahogany market and other things. You will find Mahogany market: Coming from Rotonda direction Batangas. At the Petron station intersection go to the right and follow this street about 2 km. At your right is the Mahogany market where you can eat a good but simple lunch in one of the many restaurant stalls. For lunch we went to the Taale&#241;a restaurant to eat some Filipino food. We enjoyed the view from the terrace much more than we enjoyed the food. The food we had was too expensive and the taste not good. We will never come back here. In the afternoon we went to the highest point of Tagaytay: the Peoples park in the sky. Aside from the view, which is nice, there&#8217;s not much to see. The building, a not finished palace, meant to be the staying place for president Ronald Reagan on his visit to the Philippines, but he cancelled the visit because of the unstable situation back in 1983, so the work stopped and the palace was never finished, although the place gives [...]<hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-2/">August 9, 2009</a>, rienus ernst writes: at X-mas time we will go there
my wife likes to see lake taal
Rienus
</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-2/">August 9, 2009</a>, <a href='http://expatinthephilippines.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>jan</a> writes: We wish you a nice stay there, but make reservations in time
</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-1/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: trip to Tagaytay, part 1">trip to Tagaytay, part 1</a><br /> 

To celebrate our wedding anniversary we went a few days to Tagaytay. Tagaytay is known to be the second summer city of the Philippines and is only 55 km from Manila. The town is situated on the rim of</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/whos-the-boss/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: who&#8217;s the boss?">who&#8217;s the boss?</a><br />A few weeks ago Flor and I went to Tagaytay for our wedding anniversary. We spend a few days there and visited several places we haven't been before. One of those palces is Paradizoo in Mendez.
Paradizoo is a large farm</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/guest-blogs-2/emily/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Emily">Emily</a><br />Emily is the highly domesticated house cat, room mate, a kind of child and most favorite pet of the owner of this blog and his wife.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate our wedding anniversary we went a few days to Tagaytay. Tagaytay is known to be the second summer city of the Philippines and is only 55 km from Manila. The town is situated on the rim of the Taal lake. Taal (pronounced as: Ta-al) is the smallest active volcano in the world. Inside the actual crater of Taal is a lake with a small island. The Volcano itself is situated in an other lake (Lake Taal) on an Island (Luzon). According to vulcanologist the rim where Tagaytay is situated is a very old crater. So you can easily say that there is an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island. We have booked a room in a small but very comfortable hotel. The Mi-Jo hotel is situated about 200 m from the main road through Tagaytay. Rooms are very comfortable, clean and with good beds. Prices vary from 1800 and up per night. It is advised to make reservations because the hotel is very much in demand. The staff is friendly and a small breakfast is included in the price. Some rooms have a refrigerator, and all have air conditioners (in case [...]<hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-1/">September 9, 2010</a>, <a href='http://www.encenada-resort.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>ludwig fuentebella</a> writes: Hi Jan,

have you been to Puerto Galera, Mindoro Island? For only P3750/person you can have a 2n3d holiday inclusive of roundtrip transfers from Manila to Encenada and back; 2 nights aircon beachfront accommodations; welcome drinks; daily breakfast; use of billiards, paddlebost and beach volleyball Please call our Manila sales office for discount and more details: 02-6640887 or 0906-4334192... 
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encenadabeach@yahoo.com</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-1/">September 9, 2010</a>, Jan writes: Hi Ludwig,
Thanks for visiting my website.
It looks a great place to me, I will keep it in mind ....</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-1/">May 2, 2011</a>, lightandbubbly writes: hello mr. jan,

i would like to express my appreciation for your posts re: trips you made.  i am a filipina but having malls around me made me forget about the beauty of my country and the simplicity it could offer without spending too much.  thank you so much for that.  on the other hand, it was also a big help for me right now since my boyfriend of two years will be visiting me for the first time and it helps to have your take about these places for the reason that you are seeing it on a different perspective which i would say would be my bf's perspective too considering that he hails from another country like you.  i have been looking up for places to dine at in tagaytay and had read blogs and reviews about the restos that you had been to but your post convinced me big time to go to the following places in tagaytay...and if i may suggest that you check out sonya's garden on your next visit to tagagaytay...it's a wonderful place to retreat from the hussle and bussle of the metro... ^.^ 

maraming salamat and mabuhay po kayo!</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-1/">May 2, 2011</a>, Jan writes: Hi Lightandbubbly,
What a funny name you choose!
Thanks for your comment, it is realy appreciated.
I must say that our last visit to this restaurant in Tagaytay wasn't that successfull as before. Several itemns on the menu were not available. And those were the items I liked the most. So We were a little disappointed.
And sure, next time we will visit Sonja's garden.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-1/">May 5, 2011</a>, Borakika writes: Mukhang masarap magbakasyon dyan sa tagaytay ah.. Any suggestion para sa magandang lugar..</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-1/">February 5, 2012</a>, <a href='http://entrenandoatup.shikshik.org/2012/02/05/bonjourno-tagaytay/' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Bonjourno tagaytay &#124; Entrenandoatup</a> writes: [...] trip to tagaytay part 1Mar 9, 2009 &#8230; cliffhouse tagaytay bongiorno restaurant tagaytay buongiorno restaurant tagaytay . For dinner that night we were strolling along the main road, &#8230; [...]</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/trip-to-tagaytay-part-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: trip to Tagaytay, part 2">trip to Tagaytay, part 2</a><br />Our first day of this trip you can find here

Day two, after our breakfast, we drove around again to find the local Mahogany market and other things. You will find Mahogany market: Coming from Rotonda direction Batangas. At the Petron</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/whos-the-boss/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: who&#8217;s the boss?">who&#8217;s the boss?</a><br />A few weeks ago Flor and I went to Tagaytay for our wedding anniversary. We spend a few days there and visited several places we haven't been before. One of those palces is Paradizoo in Mendez.
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