A gracefully thin woman in her white summer dress looked up to me as I spoke gleefully of our dive session. She was seated at the dining area, her eyes hidden behind the curtains of her curls examining us, shifting her gaze from one diver to another. The lady looked sophisticated. She has been quiet since we came then she spoke a word or two to the staff in our silence. She just doesn’t look sophisticated, she also sounded sophisticated. Should I greet her? Just then, I happened to hear that she is rather a female solo traveler who, like us, was also just visiting Puerto Galera. In awe, I…

When the warm days go in full swing, the ladies in bikini go sun-bathing and dancing at the beach. While a lot of women feel perfectly comfortable and confident with their beach bodies, some would rather hide in their closets as their self-esteem plummet at the sight of the flawless Victoria’s Secret angels-like figures everywhere – on social media, advertisements and at the beach per say. For some, the season is quite an onslaught because it constantly reminds them that they just can’t. In the past years, however, the beaches aren’t flocked only with the ideal ‘Coca-Cola’ bodies in that pretty little bikini but with a lot who also believed…