It’s Christmas time. In colder countries this means snow and cold weather.
Not in the Philippines. It’s warm as always with temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius every day and lots of sun.
Yet I spotted a snow man in the street in Marikina. “How is that possible?”, would you ask.
Well it’s simple. It is just part of the Christmas decoration used in the Philippines.
Near to the snow man they have created a large Christmas tree made of presents, about 5 meters high. I took these pictures during daytime and in the evening so you can see the difference.
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Flor and I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the readers of this blog a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !
Filipino time:
Hi Jan! I would also like to wish you and Flor a Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year! I see you’ve been visiting the city where we live… err used to live.
Hi Jay,
We have been reading that you were living in Provident village. You wrote that your house had a lot of damage.
We are living near Masinag and we visit Marikina regularly to go to the market.
Thanks for your wishes and express ours to your family too.
jan and flor,
a very merry christmas to you too! still thrilled that u guys came to visit me at rockwell, even if i didn’t have the chance to stand up and show u around…i really appreciate it!
hope to bump into you both soon!!!
Hi Sunshine,
Good to hear from you again. I hope you didn’t suffer too much from Ondoy and that all your works were not affected.
We will run into eachother one day…. I hope.
Please express our best wishes also to your family.