this summer we went to our ancestral home in Bicol - Ragay, Camarines Sur..it really was quite a breathtaking sight to look back and take a walk down memory lane ... everything is still as they were when we got there though really old and broken, specially the train station where we used to go down whenever we too the provincial train of the Philippine National Railways back in the days...

we did a lot of things there in Bicol although it wasn't really kind of a vacation trip but rather like a business trip ... our main agenda was to try and assess my lola's farm there in Bicol since she's already old and couldn't go back as easily as before - there weren't any trains running to ride in since the accident in Quezon last year ... and about the trains, I really miss riding those big-steel-linear vehicles, even though it would take you about 8-10 hours overnight to get to Bicol its still fun to ride those things specially when you get to be in Quezon when you wake up in the morning and see all the mountains, coconut trees and farms - since the trains go pass through them ... well the roads that we took followed the path of the train tracks so its kind like going on a train ride although we just go through the different bayans in the journey... really the train is our main vehicle of transportaion since (as you can see in the pictures - just click the title to get to the pictures or click the picture above :-D) the Ragay main station is located just across our ancestral home... you can even say its a real life "home along the riles" kind of situation... now since our old ancestral house ain't livable as of the moment since its been "abandoned" =D for at least 12 years now, we stayed in Naga City - the capital of Bicol... we stayed there for the duration of our stay while going back to Ragay in the morning and trying to carry out our "mission" =D ... having to stay in Naga was exhilirating since its my first time to go there, when I was a kid I really liked to go to Naga since it was just a 2 hour train ride from our house... Naga really is a city as people are describing it, it only lacks an SM Department Store and its alredy complete =D...

well i guess thats it for now... theres nothing more I can say but one thing...

"grabe parapagalun baga ang pasiring duman sa harung me sa Bicol, harabaun ang biyahe!!" =D

just check out the pictures guys... =D
Sunday, April 17, 2005 at 4:56 PM

visit naman kami sa harung ninyo next time hehe. mag-plane tayo para hindi mapagalun. haha! :) 17/4/05 7:32 PM  

what is mapagalun? hehe. wow... summer trip.... hehe.. bakit pumunta kayo sa mga barong-barong? 18/4/05 8:54 AM  

mapagalun=nakakapagod; harung=bahay hehe.. bicolana rin yan si ellen eh :-D san kayo sa bicol?

hoy hindi yan barong-barong.. ganyan talaga ang mga bahay sa probinsya lalo na yung mga maliliit na bayan sa province ano :-D and yung mga SKETCH na yan ang parang tricycle dumadaan sa sa riles ng train.. eh wala naman train ngayon kaya wala naman naaaksidente sa kanila 18/4/05 9:01 AM  

you're spokening alien language na naman ha! 18/4/05 9:14 AM  

taga-apad ka palan?

taga-bantolinao ako ^_^

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