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.
Vuelos a Nicaragua Salidas desde La Habana. Cambio de avión en Santo Domingo. Desde $3.499 Theses tickets are sold by a travel agency in Miami for Cubans who want to…
I left Havana a couple of days ago, now i am told that many parts of that city are flooded, adding to the misery of survival in these times of…
An alarm was raised about a possible Hurricane approaching Cuba, so I decided to leave for Miami. There I was sitting at the noisy International Departure terminal of Jose Marti…
Yesterday I was enjoying my sunset walk along the Malecon, the seawall which is just few metres away from the flat where I stay in Havana. There were many people…
I have had a wonderful trip to France, Israel, Morocco and Tunisia; two developed and two developing areas of the world. I have been lucky enough to visit Marrakech often…
The morning was still young, a text message arrives from Kuala Lumpur, do you have time to talk? it said It was KO, the former Malaysian ambassador to Cuba. We…
CARAVANSARY AT TABRIZ IRAN Eventhough we tend to associate Caravansary with the Silk Road and the Arab and Turkic traders, they were found in Iran hundreds of years earlier, during…
The incredible tranquility of my home in Havana elevated me to a level of consciousness that i truly felt . Adding to those embers was my love for Iran.. directly…
This is one of the best known quotes about Paris in the English Language and the idea of a moveable feast entered the language. Currently the moveable feast in my…
Many years ago, the astute physician of south D akota who was also my friend, Dr Jim K, came to visit me in MIami and he made an observation about…
Today has been a wonderful day. Nature put on a show to tell us who is the supreme power. Xango put in an appearance with powerful thunders that shook the…
In the last one month, I have been in France (Nantes, Quiberon) and in Madrid and then in Cochin and took the longest flight, Singapore to New York (18 hours…
This visit to Cochin is turning out to be beyond expectations. Mr Ranjit and Mr Vertivar, both from Pondicherry, the administrative team at TOWER HOUSE hotel in the heart of…
COCHIN, especially Fort Cochin has always had a special place in my heart. In the Pre-pandemic days of yore, you would find me often, enjoying the breeze from the Arabian…
I have visited the teeming city of Madras (now called Chennai) on many occasions and had the pleasure of living in Kingston, Jamaica for a short while. While searching for…
I have always identified myself as a Jewish Boy from Melbourne, even though I have lived in other places and other countries. Learning to speak Spanish, I am fairly proficient…
Things happen for a reason, say the American Indians. I find myself in La Habana, amidst the chaos of thousands of cuban emigrants arriving from Miami with their demeanour vastly…
I found this in the Net, and I will quote it fully including the quotes by Antoine Saint Exupery the author of The Little Prince. The Little Prince and The…
