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For a western mind, these sonorous names roll off like dew to a pasture Shalinda, Rosana, Ashikin, Jieha, Mustaqim, Zarina, Odelia Najwa, Ameen but these are the names of some…
I was still at university when I listened to a jazz pianist playing this melody Autumn Leaves Did not realize at that time, many years later I would be listening…
In the last 24 hours my Cuban sister has been involved in intense spiritual healing of an unfortunate, by all accounts a well loved lady in Iran. Me and another…
Vuelos a Nicaragua Salidas desde La Habana. Cambio de avión en Santo Domingo. Desde $3.499 Theses tickets are sold by a travel agency in Miami for Cubans who want to…
I have had a wonderful trip to France, Israel, Morocco and Tunisia; two developed and two developing areas of the world. I have been lucky enough to visit Marrakech often…
In CUBA we try to be hospitable to visitors but this one, from the Sahara, Cabo Verde Islands and the Atlantic, a certain Sr. IAN was not welcome. The entire…
I left Havana a couple of days ago, now i am told that many parts of that city are flooded, adding to the misery of survival in these times of…
An alarm was raised about a possible Hurricane approaching Cuba, so I decided to leave for Miami. There I was sitting at the noisy International Departure terminal of Jose Marti…
For Hemingway the Moveable Feast was Paris and for me it is Havana. What makes Havana and for that matter all of Cuba make so special? Its people not only…
Yesterday I was enjoying my sunset walk along the Malecon, the seawall which is just few metres away from the flat where I stay in Havana. There were many people…
The temperature outside is a pleasant 20 C, much cooler than the 34 C, in this presqu'île de Quiberon, Brittany. A very good article arrived from The New York Times,…
Many years ago I remember seeing an CD with a lovely name : and enjoyed the music, Cubans and African musicians singing classic Cuban songs.. Today walking along the side…