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The day of departure from Havana is always sad, I had the feeling that this time around I will miss my Little Island more than the usual for various reasons.…
Tire-Bouchon is the two carriage train that goes from the popular seaside town of Quiberon to Auray where one can catch major trains to various parts of Brittany as well…
I am fond of trying circuitous routes to reach my destination, and I will document one such here: From Havana to Quiberon, in France. If you want to go the…
MINDFULNESS VS MINDLESSNESS IN TOURISM Two tourist spots and two different forms of extraction of your dollar. At the end of the day we are just dollar signs to the…
I have had a long association with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. In fact when I go there on my monthly visits, I live in a house within the reservation.…
After a long flight to Bogota from Madrid via Cali, I had hoped to rest well at Hilton Bogota, where they had upgraded me to a spacious room on arrival…
DUDU TASSA, NASRIN QADRI AND THE FUTURE OF MIZRACHI JEWS My brother who was born in Bombay but grew up in Kobe and now lives in Portland, Oregon and I…
AMBIGUITY, SADHGURU AND MY TRAVEL PLANS FOR THE NEXT 8 WEEKS When I woke up this morning, my good friend MC from KL had sent a discourse about Planning your…
The Purim greetings I fondly recollect was the one my younger brother Ricardo sent me from Jerusalem in 2009. Two young orthodox Jewish children were dressed in Arab costumes of…
From a personal point of view, these past few days have not been the best of days. I had a most wonderful time in the past few weeks: American Indians,…
A LONELY JEW IN LONDON My first long term visit out of Australia, as a Jew and a teenager was to Sweden. Coming from a traditional Jewish community in Melbourne,…
CUBA IS THE FUTURE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND PERHAPS THE WORLD On my way out of Cuba, from La Habana, on COPA airlines flight to Panama, I wanted to overcome…