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.
The sultanate of Oman is without doubt my favourite Muslim country, the friendliest Arab country that I have visited. The Omani people are just friendly open humble and very hospitable.…
Lots of nice things have happened to me in Oman during my various visits and this visit (today I leave for Paris on my way to Miami and then Havana)…
I was born HOMELESS in that my parents were not in their countries of origin and like my brother Eliyahu ended up in countries that were not in our destiny,…
Not even an exaggerated imagination would grant Bangkok the title of a Beautifiul City, but what is present here? that attract millions of visitors per year? When I arrived at…
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…
It was on October 5, 2019 that this buddhist monk appeared at the hotel where I was having a late breakfast, watching the calm Arabian Sea. Just the day before…
I have had a few wonderful days here in La Habana. As the city and the country evolves, from one drama to the next, my own life here gets better…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I AM A PROUD M.O.T. MEMBER OF THE TRIBE The first time I heard the expression MOT, was from a doctor teacher,…
I always reach the Airport a little earlier than normal, mainly to have a nice breakfast at the Flagship Lounge of the American Airlines. 730 am An Uber driver by…
Some of the following photographs may be copyrighted so I beg forgiveness of the photographers but they were available in the Net.. Many people in Miami are very surprised how…
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…
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A BUDDHIST monk appears at the hotel where I was staying at Fort Cochin in Kerala, India He is a Geshe, just one year short of becoming a monk. He…
We had become friends when we were still medical students. and shared the same hospital when we were training to become specialist physicians. It was not Medicine that brought us…
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…
Am I off key to anticipate my flights on QR Qatar Airways? I look forward to my QR flights and on this morning, Madrid to Doha and then on to…
