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.
A HOTEL STAY THAT TURNED ITSELF INTO A VACATION And that mood followed me to Casablanca. I love flying Qatar Airways; it means frequent transits through Doha. Before, I was…
THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON: A MODERN DAY TECHNOLOGICAL ENCOUNTER AT 39 000 FEET. The sleek Airbus 350 took off from New York JFK airport on time, now climbing over…
A TALE OF TWO CITIES: IN A MATTER OF HOURS. A GOOD METAPHOR NEW YORK AND DOHA To travel from Havana to Doha, one has to transit either in Miami…
I remember the Nobel Prize winner British writer, VS Naipaul saying: when you do not have a project in life, it tends to become boring. I have a chance to…
I have never felt unwelcome in this country and I have been coming in and out of the country with certain regularity for more than twenty years. My reason to…
It is a great pleasure for me to show my favourite country to visiting people. In the last year, I have had multiple visitors including some friends from my university…
Two things stood out on my recent trip to PARIS.. Unlike the disdain the locals exhibited towards English, majority of the people I encountered were speaking English! No more, pas…
I am at Riad Hamdani, a bed and breakfast lodging place, Moroccan style, very comfortable and inspiring near the Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca. In the morning, facing the…
WHEN IT COMES TO CUSTOMER SERVICE ON THE GROUND, NO ONE CAN BEAT THE UNITED STATES SERVICE INDUSTRY. I had arrived in the United States from Qatar on the 16…
I am in Doha to show solidarity with the country, which is facing a diplomatic crisis, forced on them by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, all I suppose stalwarts…
I found myself in Kuala Lumpur on 4th of July 2017. I am aware that it is an important holiday in USA even though I have not been in USA…
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…
VOICES FROM CUBA: 14 JUNE 2017 Happy Birthday Comandante CHE I left Havana on a night of that familiar downpours where the sky and the landscape become inseparable, my faithful…
My luck with good food didnt run out when I arrived in the USA. I was admitted to the Flagship lounge of the American Airlines in Chicago where I could…
I met Aksam AbouThahir from Matare, Sri Lanka on 2 August 2012, when I arrived at Doha (the Old) airport. He was working at the Business Class Lounge and our…
CLEANSING OF YOUR MIND IN MALACCA I had a delightful time in KL, a quiet one and with the staff at Hilton Double Tree spoiling me, and with a Facial…
TODAY is 11th May 2017, I am in Room 3401 of the Executive Floor of Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. I had come to Kuala Lumpur to find solace…
I chose the right place to come, to get away from the conflicts and confusions in Brussels and Miami. Here I can be myself, don't have to put up any…
