Butterfly Blue Bar opened in 1999 in Quezon City, after its original location in Makati closed down. Our group–Ramon Tan,...
Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 21st century, Hungary, Croatia and the other Balkan states that used to form the Austro-Hungarian empire have been a dream destination for tourists.
Vietnam, a country scarred by blood and fighting in the 1960s, was always an off-the-beaten-track route for tourists. I remember buying old postcards of French colonial buildings in Saigon (the old name of Ho Chi Minh) in a flea market in Vienna in the late ’80s.