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.
When I began working with the Indigenous people, I noticed that their metabolism of certain foods differed from their fellow countrymen of European origin. At the same time, observations had…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Year 2019 has been a good year for travel, but then again which year has not been a good one ?…
I enjoy walking along the Malecon as the sun sets. At this time of the year in Havana, it sets behind some buildings, not in the open seas, but it…
Vagaries of airline schedules are such that it took me a long time to get to Siem Reap from Quiberon in France. After a rest and waiting out the stormy…
I have already quoted the poem in another blog.. but today is 29 October and tomorrow 30 October.. Both pleasant days of October Especially this October which has been more…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE --> THE MAGIC OCTOBER CONTINUES Today is 26 th October 2019 On 26 th September I was in Lisbon, Portugal catching a…
Porfirio Diaz the Mexican Dictator seemed to have implied; Pobre Mexico, tan circa de Estados Unidos y tan lejos de Dios We, in Cuba, has something to offer the poor…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE SAUDADE FOR IRAN Saudade is my favourite Portuguese word, which has been translated into many forms of nostalgia, anoransa en Spanish, longings…
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES I have always wondered why the Cubans who live in the island are so kind and demonstrate a sense of solidarity that one rarely…
WHAT A LOVELY END Loves have only grown.. CUBA my home, the numerous brothers and sister that I toil for.. a glass of Chenin Blanc from an Indian winery, ah…
After I had delivered a talk at the annual conference of Endocrinology in 2019, an Argentine doctor said she needed an explanation: This is my first visit to Cuba, she…
I had arrived at Amsterdam Schipol Airport from Corinthia Corentin region of Austria the day before, four hours by train from its capital Klagenfort to Vienna and a short Austrian…
I have just returned to Miami after a 10 day trip to Europe in which I discovered a lovely part of Austria and also ventured into the mountainous parts of…
It is 31 July 2019 and I recollect pleasantly what a wonderful month of travel it has been for me Began the month of July in La Havana being well…
It is always the same, the day before departure, I feel a tinge of sadness, cannot explain why, it is the sadness of a good bye, a temporary permanence now…
0 0 1 1110 6330 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 52 14 7426 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE --> Theatres of the Mind YOU ARE…
The gastronomy of this small town now a city of about 250 000 inhabitants and about 2 plus million visitors reflect the other geopolitical factors that affect travel to Angkor…
MAKE NEW FRIENDS OF COURSE .. The day begins of course with a nice breakfast.. But the time difference between Cuba and Cambodia is 11 hours, so I had to…
