Amarela's eclectic tables and chairs
Twice been to Bohol by air, landed on Tagbilaran airport and got picked-up by the Bohol Beach Club service whose owner operated the Bayview Club in the Roxas Boulevard area. Bohol Beach Club is where a friend’s boat is docked, and is always ready for an occasion among friends to take. What makes this special is its air conditioned cabin, despite its simplicity.
On the beach front, along the side of Bohol Beach Club is a boutique hotel, the Amarela. It has only 25 rooms or so, quaint and eclectic (the dining sets have differently designed tables and chairs), and family-run. Given a choice, I would rather stay there if it weren’t that Bohol Beach Club is owned by a friend and charges us only for our meals, my partner and myself.
Not far from Bohol Beach Club is a 3,000 square-meter property owned by family friends, husband and wife who had retired in the Philippines after long years and gainful employment in the United States. They bought the property in the early 90s for only a hundred pesos per square meter. On the property stands their modern 3-bedroom home, an expanded “dirty kitchen” attached to a laundry area cum garage that stands alone when the couple goes on trips. There are a few animals in their respective coops that look quite content and a vegetable patch that complements the couple’s Italian brick oven.
On one of these two trips, some friends thought of pooling resources for a bed and breakfast place, near Amarela. I didn’t get to hear their plans but that an agent showed them around with vicinity maps is what I know. If I had the resources, I’d find a property near the river where we took a ride to see and hear glowing, beautiful and buzzing fireflies on trees and shrubs. Could be millions of them, generating natural light, if it weren’t for that, the river would have looked and felt eerie and lonely. These times when fossil fuel is getting scarce, the sight of fireflies prompted a friend to suggest, “alternative energy!”
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