[Cost of a day out in the Philippines, complete with high-end meal for two: £20
Cost of the same in England £150
The look of delight on your credit card company's face when they realise your costs have gone up sixfold just by moving to England: Priceless.
I agree with Peter on this, the cost of taking someone out for the day is around £150.00, weve all done it, but the places you mention are worth going to, such as Windsor, or Hampton Court Palace, excellent places, showing English Heritage, Shopping malls are an import from the U.S.A as you quite rightly say, I can never understand the Filipino obsession of congregating in SM's seen one shopping mall seen them all..but you cant say that about Windsor Castle, or for example Chatsworth, if you have been to Chatsworth the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, its a fantastic place to go, even if its just for a day out, although i am into the history side of these properties, which must have cost a fortune to keep up even back when they were built, there is literally years and years of history in them, I admit its not for everyone, but I would prefer a day out in one of those places than shuffling around Sheffield Meadowhall and having a KFC at lunchtime, I realized this after finding that browsing Gaisano City Mall in Bacolod, you see the same shops, the same goods, its so boring and gets on my nerves, lets face it most people only go in for the air conditioning, and there was some sickly event the last time i went in, Miss Junior Philippines, with some baby faced girl doing a Kylie Minogue impression...aaarrrrgh ghastly.
Peter makes good points, try and tell a Filipina that this is good for you darling that you should see Dunvegan Castle on the isle of Skye, its good for your cross cultural bonding dear.
