Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
QATAR AIRWAYS Paris CDG Terminal 1 Thanks to agents Nachette and Belinda Lounge access before boarding. Leaving France For the next six hours, cared for by QR staff while pondering…
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…
A RAPA NUI family with their Foreign Friends. Everyone joins in the celebrations, I can see my Argentine friend in the photo .. Rapa Nui are Polynesian and the Continental…
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DAY 1 Brussels European Quartier Brussels Airport Diamond Lounge at Terminal A To Madrid on Iberia Rush to catch the connecting flight to London Comfortable ride to London Chaos at…
There is an increasing interest in MICROBIOME, the large number of bacteria that inhabit our guts. Once certain relationships became clearer to scientists: good and bad bacteria, lack of diversity,…
Oslo and Norway hold special places in my heart. For a naive australian young man visiting northern europe for the first time and incredibly susceptible to the romance of the…
I am waiting to check in to Georgian Airlines counter which does not open for another hour or so at Terminal 2 D, the poor cousin to the other luxurious…
I used to be a loyal Delta Airlines flier and when they changed their Frequent Flier programme, I switched to United Airlines and when they devalued their programme switched to…
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My first flight with Qatar Airways was in February 2014, I think: IAH DOH CGK DOH BRU. Since then I have made every attempt to fly QR Qatar Airways when…
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Average traveller in the USA has become accustomed to accepting poor service (American Airlines staffed by Grandmas, as described by HE Al-Bakr CEO of Qatar Airways, my favoured airline) or…
I am a Frequent Traveller and my world is Latin America, North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. Whenever I find a hotel or staff, I become attached to them, and…
When I left my home in La Habana, Cuba for Miami, the day before I was to take QR 778 to Doha, I was already full of anticipation, as is…
I am an Endocrinologist, a person who studies why people put on weight, among other metabolic dysfunctions of the body. I am also an Anthropologist, interested in the influences of…
