Places to take your Pinoy wife/fiancee

[peterdavid]

Originally posted by ginapeterb@Jun 16 2005, 12:31 PM
so come on guys, dont just take your wife or fiancee to a shopping mall on Saturday, they can get that in the Philippines, they can go to shopping malls every day if they want, but take them to places where you can teach them something,

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Have you tried convincing a filipina that she'd prefer to go to a castle instead of a shopping mall.....?

Best option is to tell her right from the start "no dear, we don't have shopping malls in the UK, they're a ghastly american invention your country has copied, all our shops here are located in [insert tourist destination of your choice here].

[peterdavid]

Other places worth a visit:

Bath/Longleat (watch her squeal with fear when she realises the animals aren't in cages

Wookey Hole/Cheddar Gorge

Windsor/Oxford/Cambridge/York (cities that look good, you get the picture)

Warwick Castle

The various London touristy things (the stuff you completely ignore when you live in London) like Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, St Pauls, Madame Tussauds, London Dungeon

Tate gallery/British Museum/ Natural History museum

Hampton Court.

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.

[ginapeterb]

[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.

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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.

[peterdavid]

Originally posted by ginapeterb@Jun 16 2005, 04:49 PM
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.

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If you're really lucky, you might even catch Sexbomb performing. A level of class matched only by the Cheeky Girls.

On the other hand, SM Mall means regulation mini-skirts......

[mrsfrivolity]

Originally posted by peterdavid@Jun 16 2005, 05:16 PM
Have you tried convincing a filipina that she'd prefer to go to a castle instead of a shopping mall.....?

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You're kidding right? To a Filipino (to me at least) England is like every fairytale come to life. The first thing I wanted to see was Buckingham Palace! God Bless the Queen! :P

I do miss our malls where everything is in one place and a nice top cost only £1.50. but when I go back to the PI to visit, I will have tales of countryside as far as the eye could see ... national parks ... walks in the woods ... (where there is no threat of phytons or poisonous spiders) ... Stonehenge ... The Queen's dollhouse in Windsor Castle ... plants for every season ... the perfect summer weather ... garden centers (simply the best&#33 ... the famous West End Musicals ... English country pubs!

[ginapeterb]

Originally posted by mrsfrivolity@Jun 17 2005, 07:01 AM
You're kidding right? To a Filipino (to me at least) England is like every fairytale come to life. The first thing I wanted to see was Buckingham Palace! God Bless the Queen!

Praise the Lord, we have the real thing ! Mrs Frivolity has just restored my faith in the Philippine Project, ohhhh great..I will have so much fun showing my honey all of these national treasures, and explaining them, especially the River Thames cruise trip from Tower Bridge down to Westminster Pier, the audio tour in itself, is worth hearing, there are so many historical buiildings and stories along the bank, and of course you see the Golden hind, and HMS Belfast, you see nothing like that in Manila Bay, only masses and masses of fish farms, UK has an excellent history, and I think Mrs Frivolity has grasped the nettle and taken the bull by the horns, at least she wont be up the creek without a paddle, nor will she be thrown out with the baby in the bathwater, so when when she is deluged with a flock of vultures, she will be able to say "I am not a foreigner ! I am a British-Filipino, so you go and take your foreigner tag and stick it where the sun dont shine Pal ! or as we say in London "Play the white man Guv !"