Mike Wootton
I took a trip to Lucban in Quezon the other day to see the decorations for the Pahiyas festival. They were indeed impressive and Lucban was a very nice place. Problem was actually getting there and back. I had carefully checked the route beforehand and it looked quite straightforward on the map, but there were lots of intersections and so few of them have direction signs with the result that we had to ask directions from random tricycle drivers and passers-by and took the wrong road—twice—and the journey time was 2hrs 45 minutes instead of the “advertised” 1hr 20 minutes. Tourists, beware, things can take longer than expected.