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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. 
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was visiting the market in Marikina, this man and his dog passed by. The man showed me that his dog could dance. Share and Enjoy<hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/birthday-celebration-in-pioduran-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: birthday celebration in Pioduran #2">birthday celebration in Pioduran #2</a><br />During the afternoon and evening we had contact with some nieces who are living in Holland through Yahoo Messenger. In this way they had the feeling that they were included in the party too.
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After dinner for all</li><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/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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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a picture of a nice small bicycle, taken in Marikina near the public market. Share and Enjoy<hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/my-favorite-picture/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: my favorite picture">my favorite picture</a><br />Some time ago I was standing on a street corner in Marikina City and take pictures of passing jeepneys for my blog about this typical public transport.Check that post here.
On a certain moment I was turning around and saw a</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/where-is-papa-now/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: where is papa now">where is papa now</a><br />Some time ago I was standing on a street corner in Marikina City and take pictures of passing jeepneys for my blog about this typical public transport.Check that post here. On a certain moment I was turning around and saw</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.
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		<title>Christmas display in Marikina City Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marikina City has recovered from the ONDOY flooding dissaster. I wrote about it in several posts earlier. It&#8217;s Christmas time now. Marikina City has made a nice display for this event by telling the story of Christmas. It is told by the mayor to a few children, not in live person but using moving and talking puppets in a beatifull display at the Marikina City Hall. I have been seeing the preparing of this display a few weeks ago and took some pictures. It was only yesterday that we were able to go there and see the show. The show is played between 6 PM and 11 PM every day and every 30 minutes. The whole show is about 15 minutes long and really worth being seen. For those who are living too far from Marikina, I brought my camera and make a few shots of it, showing now below. The display is also shown at YouTube: Marikina Xmas display Share and Enjoy<hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/christmas-display-in-marikina-city-philippines/">December 4, 2009</a>, <a href='http://lizardpoop.blogspot.com/' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Dave DeWall</a> writes: Nice to see the Christmas display, Jan. Good to be in the Philippines where the true meaning of Christmas can be expressed without any government interference like back in America.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/christmas-display-in-marikina-city-philippines/">December 4, 2009</a>, Jan writes: Hi Dave,
Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it a lot.
I am happy to be in the Philippines, just like you !!</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/snow-man-detected-in-marikina-city-philippines/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Snow man detected in Marikina City, Philippines">Snow man detected in Marikina City, Philippines</a><br />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</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/preparing-for-new-years-evening/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Preparing for New Years evening">Preparing for New Years evening</a><br />Already several days a few youngsters in our neighbourhood are firing firecrackers. They start early morning and continue to do so untill in the evening. If they do it for the coming new year celebration or a belated Christmas celebration</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/preparing-for-christmas/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: preparing for Christmas">preparing for Christmas</a><br />There is an R in the month. That means the Philippines starts preparing for Christmas.
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		<title>smoking issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like so many countries, the Philippines also has a NON-SMOKING policy. In public places (restaurants, shopping malls etc.) it is not allowed to smoke. Large warnings on every pack of smokes, that you will get cancer, or it affects the fertility and so on, are to discourage people to smoke. On the other hand they allow children to smoke (maybe not officially, but still&#8230;) and to sell cigarettes in the streets. As you know my wife and I frequently visit the public market in Marikina City. It was there where I spotted a new sign against smoking. The sign was pasted against a post. Later I have seen several more of them on different spots in the market streets. After a few minutes looking around, as I usually do, I spotted a car coming. Immediately I took my camera and made a picture of it. Funny is that on the front there is an add from Marlboro but on the door a warning from the government written. When the car was gone in the usual cloud of smoke (it drove too fast to take one more shot) I had my own thoughts&#8230;&#8230;about smoking and smoke in general. Share and Enjoy<hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/smoking-issue/">November 21, 2009</a>, <a href='http://www.philfaqs.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Dave Starr</a> writes: One of the incongruities about the Philippines ... a country where the public education system is stuggling at best.  A pack of cigarettes costs about 30 or 40 pesos.  A liter of local rum or gin costs about 85 pesos.  A birth certificate for a child (without which s/he will _not_ be admitted to school) costs 600 pesos or more (could be a lot more if the family has to travel back to their ancestral province to get one from hospital ot church records).

I could be wrong here, but I think someone's priorities are a bit skewed.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/smoking-issue/">November 22, 2009</a>, Jan writes: Dave,
You're so right.
This all happens in a country with a government with actors and where politicians make the show.....</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/smoking-issue/">April 3, 2010</a>, Wendell Beiter writes: Hello,I love reading through your blog, I wanted to leave a little comment to support you and wish you a good continuation. Wishing you the best of luck for all your blogging efforts.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/smoking-issue/">September 16, 2010</a>, Diliana writes: Hi Jan,
I am making a presentation about smoking in the Philippines. I would like to include some pictures. I wanted to know if I could use your photo of the two girls selling cigarettes. I am very conscious of copyright and permissions issues, so I would say that I would also need the permission of the girls in the photo to use their picture.

It would be great if you could contact me to let me know if this is OK or to discuss it.

Thank you!</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/smoking-issue/">September 16, 2010</a>, Jan writes: Hi Diliana,
Thanks for visiting my website.
You are allowed to use any of my pictures as long as you mention the source. Please refer to my website in every picture you use.

It will be hard to find the two girls on the picture, so asking them for permission will be difficult. They have posed for my camera so I assume there's no problem.

Let me know when the article is available to read, and the address. I would like to read your story.</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/smoking-ban-in-manila-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: smoking ban in Manila">smoking ban in Manila</a><br />[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="smoking children in Manila, Philippines"] [/caption]Last year I published already a post about smoking in the Philippines and the possibilities to buy cigarettes everywhere, even in traffic jams and public places like markets, jeepney stops, bus</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/noynoy-smoking-or-not/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Noynoy, smoking or not">Noynoy, smoking or not</a><br />President-apparent Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III of the Liberal Party said he would no longer debate about his smoking habit with groups seeking to make him an anti-smoking poster boy.
And he isn’t quitting either – at least not at this</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/smoking-ban-manila/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: smoking ban Manila">smoking ban Manila</a><br />Now smoking on a lot of places in Manila &#160;is not allowed anymore it is a good moment to look for alternatives.
Some of the alternatives are:

	do not go out anymore and just smoke in your house
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