Mar 15, 2019
THE NIGHT HAS FALLEN OUTSIDE AND ALL OF US ARE THE SAME
The Malaysian Airline Lounge at KLIA 1 is an excellent place to wind down. I am sitting in their dining room, looking outside, where I can make out the skeletons…
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Mar 15, 2019
THE MAGNIFICENT SCHWEDAGON PAGODA OF YANGON IN MYANMAR
If you visited just one site in all of Myanmar, it has to be the magnificent Shwedagon Pagoda. Each visit reveals something else of the mystery of this ancient and…
Feb 15, 2019
EASTER ISLAND TO PALERMO IN BUENOS AIRES AND A MATE HABIT IS BORN
Under a very hot sun, with only a slight breeze from the oceanfront just a few feet away, my good sister-friend from Rapa Nui and I were looking at the…
Feb 15, 2019
A DAY WITH BENEDETTI IN MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY
I am not sure when Benedetti entered my life. His association with Cuba 1977 was long before mine. I visited Colonia with . my brother Itzhak and another time with…
Feb 15, 2019
DAY 7 OF TRIP 2/2019 . LEAVING RAPA NUI WITH A CONTENT MIND
I was leaving Rapa Nui after a very content stay and saying goodbyes to my newly found friends, Pauli and Kutchi and their families and the Tahitian friends, plus an…
Feb 15, 2019
MEDICAL ENCOUNTER IN EASTER ISLAND RAPA NUI
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Feb 15, 2019
A COUPLE OF DAYS IN MIAMI . AND THANKS TO COLLEAGUES NICE FOOD AS WELL
The arrival to USA especially Miami after the short flight from Havana, just forty minutes..is educational and needs cultural comprehension. the language remains the same, people look the same and…
Jan 15, 2019
MADE HOMELESS BY TRAVEL: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING
I am grateful whoever the person was, for introducing me to Moritz Thomsen, a beautiful soul, a peace corps volunteer in the 1960s, trying hard to make the life of…
Jan 15, 2019
MY POLYPHENOL DINNER IN MIAMI 14 JANUARY 2019
I have to present a conference on MICROBIOME and its ROLE in KIDNEY diseases in a couple of days time. After arriving from Havana and adjusting into the complexities of…
Dec 15, 2018
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA AND THE END OF THE YEAR 2018
After a disastrous New Years Eve party in the home of a neighbour in Havana in 2016, I ha decided I would choose carefully where I wish to be at…
Dec 15, 2018
JOURNEY TO THE INDIANS
I was not prepared for this weather -4 C .. I had left the balmy Havana streets and the parque and my good friends and I arrived at Omaha Airport…
Nov 15, 2018
COMING HOME TO HAVANA
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