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io liked out-of-town trips. To someone who’s lived in the city all his life, the rural lifestyle offered a change of pace. Also, great food and fresh air.
He was in Baguio City today, a good five-to-six-hour drive from Metro Manila, to begin filming a short web series for Abracadabra Coffee. This morning’s set was at Ili-Likha Artists Village, or, as he’d like to call it, a magical nook created by fairies and elves.
Deceptively mediocre at first glance, Ili-Likha’s scrap wood and metal façade was a little too low-key that Pio actually drove past it that morning. Little did he know that an entirely different world awaited him the moment he stepped inside.
Two paths greeted anyone who entered—the one on the left led down to Café Cueva, and the path on the right led to a flight o
