hello my friends,

Malaccan here. I'm currently on a short break in Rome and I can't help but notice the huge numbers of Filipinos there are both here and in the Vatican. I've been mistaken a few times for one (I'm Malay from Malaysia). It's cool to see our people travel far and wide, and finding filipinos here in the Eternal City is quite comforting for some reason. There are also many nuns and priests who are from the Philippines here. As for myself, my pilgrimage would be to Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia but I can certainly relate to the devout piety that our related race shoow to our two intertwined religion. Just a thought. Salamat!!

I heard that alot of filipinos migrate to Rome. Im not suprised that there are filipinos in the vatican. I have seen alot of filipinos who choose to live their life as nuns and priests and live their life serving the Lord.
Mabuhay malacaan


filipina nuns well the ones on the left

Oooppss, I meant Mabuhay Fil-Am, not Salamat!

I actually met up with this girl from Pennsylvania yesterday on a walking tour of Rome. We got on quite well together ended up decidiing to head to the Teatro dell Opera to try our luck and see if there were any extra tickets for the night's show. Guess what, we were given two FREE tcikets to a play by Johann Strauss!! I just love the Romans! I doubt this would happen in London. It really made my day. Also spent the train ride from Paris to Rome reading Dan Brown's da Vinci code and Andels and Demons. How lame-o. You know, I'm proud to come from an ASEAN country, but similarly am glad to have the opportunity to live in the EU just now.

Sorry for my ignorance but who is Johann Strauss?

He's a classical composer from the 18th century (I think). One of the more famous pieces of his was the Blue Danube.

Sorry Fil-Am, running low on internet credit. Talk to you later.. Rome beckons!!

Alright catch you later

I'm not sure how reliable this may be but I have heard that Italy (Vatican is inside Rome, right?) has the most number of Pinoys in Europe...

LOL I heard that too. The only information I know of filipinos in Italy, I got from watching Milan.

BTW did you know the population of filipinos in the US is 5 million?

No Kidding? I thought it was only a million or 2??

According to an fil-am newspaper I read it was 5 million.
How did you think Jasmine Trias and Camille Velasco got into the top 12?

"Salamat" means "Thank you" in the Philippine Language, Salamat Malaccan for posting this nice thread. Mabuhay Ka!

btw, havnt been to rome. But i've been to Venice, Milan, Florence, and Como. Surprisingly i only saw a few if not maybe less Filipinos on the Places i visited in Italy. I dunno, maybe because they are all in Rome... i think. ..

Keep Rockin Malaccan

Among the European countries Italy is a favorite destination among Filipinos working, residing. There is an estimated 200,000 Filipinos in Italy

man filipinos are all over the place. seriously the filipinos i think are one of the earliest people's to diaspora. i mean i read this family tree made by pure austrians that they date back their ancestry from a filipino man that fled the spanish to go to europe. first asians to settle the new world. we are the descendants of the greatest sea travelling people in the world.

the funny thing i fidn is that filipinos are more "if you're in rome do what they do in rome" kinda people. like i mean in us, you'd see china towns lil tokyo and in denver the far east corner filled with vietnamese and all that. but never did i see a little manila decked out full on like a china town others.

5 million Filipinos in the US? That is way too many.............

I was in Rome a couple of months ago and there was a lot of filipinos. The hostel i was staying in was beside this filipino store when i went in to buy some chips and they invited me for dinner the next day, too bad my train was at 7am the next morning . Oh and when i was in venice i drank san miguel with some sailor manongs at a chinese store. Italy is awsome you guys just be ready to spend some money.

that's sweet. i know our past minister was from our milan locale, and they said it was pretty fun. his kids use to email us before after they left.

San Miguel..born in the Philippines, embraced everywhere

Aside from Rome and Milan ,What other Italian cities had a lot of Filipinos?

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Sa Spain daw mga 200,000 ang mga Pinoys dun, ewan ko kung totoo

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that's sweet. i know our past minister was from our milan locale, and they said it was pretty fun. his kids use to email us before after they left.

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Yeah i forgot milan had a lot of filipinos as well. I felt like bum when i was there everyone was so stylish.

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San Miguel..born in the Philippines, embraced everywhere

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About San Miguel when i was in spain they had it there too but the colours were different and didnt taste the same either.

Which tastes better? Curious lang!

It didn't taste the same?

lol of course ours but i dont think its the same company though. Check it out.

San Miguel Espagna

Siyempre! Iba na gawang Pinoy! I've checked out the site..I don't understand Spanish. Hindi ko alam may San Mig rin pala dun.

Yeah I know i was really surprised because it seemed to be like the most popular beer there it was in bars, clubs and little grocery shops.

The bottle doesn't look like the ones I'm used to in the PI.

The bottle(regular) in the Phils is a bit fatter and a little bit smaller.

...darker and has a lot of scratches around the sides. 2

The bottle size is different its like 3 times the size which is abou tthe size of most beer bottles in EU. Yes the taste is different it just isnt as smooth as what im used too...actually it sucks i didnt like it at all.

So smuggle some Philippine San Mig when you go to Spain..LOL

Damn straight, i didnt see one around but there probobly was a store that sold Phils san miguel somewhere a filipino store or a chinese store perhaps.