Mar 15, 2018
TRAVEL TO FRANCE THIS SUMMER MAY NOT BE ADVISABLE
French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to make some changes to the labour laws and his efforts are being resisted to the hilt by the labour unions and they have called…
Stories
Field notes from the road
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.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Dec 15, 2017
LISTS FOR 2018 TRAVEL AND MUSIC AVOID THE FIRST AND EMBRACE THE SECOND
Towards the end of the calendar year, popular travel magazines and websites begin to predict or adivine the best places to travel for the coming year, predicting that they would…
Nov 15, 2017
TRAVEL IS AN ENDLESS PLEASURE
Arriving in a city after midnight brings with it exhilaration as well as trepidation, especially if it is Manaus in the Brasilian Amazonia. Brasil does not have a reputation for…
Sep 15, 2017
TRAVEL IS SUCH A SAD PLEASURE
Travel is Such a Sad Pleasure The above sentence brings back several sentiments, first of all, on this trip: La Habana-Miami-Los Indios-Doha-Casablanca-Doha-Siem Reap-Kuala Lumpur and now to Quiberon in France…
Jun 15, 2017
TRAVELS IN MAY 2017 AN EXTREMELY GOOD MONTH OF TRAVEL USA CUBA EUROPE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
31 May 2017 The last day of the month of May, a month of excesses. 15 flights all in First Class or Business Class North America, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the…
Jun 15, 2017
TRAVELS IN THE MONTH OF MAY 2017 DOHA TO NEW YORK
I HAD ALL BUT LOST MY APETITE WITH SO MUCH GLUTTONY THAT I LIMITED MY INTAKE TO A MINIMUM TO PREPARE MY SELF FOR THE IMPENDING AMERICAN CUISINE CATASTROPHE! THE…
Jun 15, 2017
TRAVELS IN THE MONTH OF MAY 2017 : MEETING WITH EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: THE CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO QATAR
I have to do more justice to this meeting, however short it was, with the Cuban Ambassador to Qatar..I have to write in detail later.. except to say that HE…
Jun 15, 2017
TRAVELS IN THE MONTH OF MAY 2017 SINGAPORE TO DOHA AND THE CITY OF DOHA
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/06/travels-in-month-of-may-2017-singapore.html
Jun 15, 2017
MONTH OF TRAVELS MAY 2017 KUALA LUMPUR MALACCA TRULY ASIA
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/06/month-of-travels-may-2017-kuala-lumpur.html
Jun 15, 2017
MONTH OF TRAVELS DOHA TO KUALA LUMPUR AND THE NICE AIRPORT KLIA
THIS FLIGHT WAS MADE MEMORABLE BY THE FA FROM POLAND, BB. Uber driver was a Tribal person from Sabah and to the familiar welcome at Double Tree Hotel KL
Jun 15, 2017
MONTH OF TRAVELS MAY 2017 DOHA TO BRUSSELS TO DOHA TO ALEXANDRIA TO DOHA
Frequent Fliers and Mileage Run afficionados would recognize this itinerary and will think nothing of it Doha to Brussels to Doha to Alexandria to Doha No this is not Egypt,…
Jun 15, 2017
MONTH OF TRAVELS MAY 2017 DOHA TO CAIRO TO DOHA
WONDERFUL AL SAFWA LOUNGE Nice to meet old friends, from Sri Lanka and make new ones, from Indonesia and Zimbabwe. (not mentioning their names for privacy) Surrealism at Cairo Airport..Incredible..…
Jun 15, 2017
THE MONTH OF MAY OF TRAVELS MIAMI TO DOHA
Qatar Airways Flight from Miami to Doha American Airlines International Lounge at terminal E in Miami Arrival Lounge at Doha Oryx Rotaana Hotel, Doha
Dec 15, 2016
BOOKS AND TRAVELS OF AN ITINERANT ENDOCRINOLOGIST
I am reading an interesting book, Where the Earth Ends by John Harrison about his travels in Tierra del Fuego. I am spurred on while reading the book, having been…
Apr 15, 2016
Ambiguity Sadhguru And My Travel Plans
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…
Jan 15, 2016
REMEMBERING CHARLIE HEBDO JANUARY 7TH IN MIAMI SENTIMENTS OF A JEWISH TRAVELER
During the years I lived in Europe, I had to tragically witness three terrorist attacks, two of them involving mainly Jews and the last one in November 2015 of the…
Feb 15, 2014
TRAVEL THAT EVOKES THE SENSATION OF CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE
TRAVEL: THE EVOKED SENSATION OF CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE I have been extraordinarily lucky when it comes to travel. Starting at age 2 ½ that was not my decision, but seriously since…
Jan 15, 2014
DO NOT OVERLOAD ON CARBOHYDRATES ON LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
A letter to my Carbohydrate Guru A Question on this first day of the year 2014 Can Champagne give you Hypoglycaemia? The breakfast, bought at the village market place, was…