{"id":1093,"date":"2015-05-18T13:29:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T05:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelphotolab.com\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2016-05-23T02:09:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T18:09:42","slug":"casa-consuelo-island-reef-pagudpud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelphotolab.com\/casa-consuelo-island-reef-pagudpud\/","title":{"rendered":"Casa Consuelo Island Reef – Pagudpud’s Tropical Resort Hideaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

We left Manila at 8:30 PM. By 7:00 AM the next morning we were at the Pagudpud junction<\/strong> with the seashell marker. We headed to the center of town for a breakfast of Ilocos longganisa-silog with coffee at the Papa Nard’s eatery.<\/p>\n

A lot has changed from 10 years ago. New town hall, new market, other new structures and paved streets. A decade ago, tired\u00a0of resort food at Saud Beach, I asked a tricycle driver to take me to what he’d consider the best restaurant serving local fare and he took me to the lone nameless carinderia (eatery) in town, dirt floor and all, but the home-cooked fare was great for an astonishingly low price. We walked around to see if that carinderia was still standing. We couldn’t find it – probably\u00a0gobbled up by one of the new concrete buildings.<\/p>\n

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