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.
I am writing this at a largely faded but glorious suite of a hotel built in 1914 in the French Art Nouveaux style in the city of Tunis which once…
One of the favourite pastimes in the western world is to predict the weather or repeat the drastic prediction made by slender, flimsily clad "certified meterologists" (whatever that is ).…
It was a good day to leave Miami. The food, the social isolation and the general dislike of Cubans vs Others, occasionally bordering on hatred was weighing upon me. Got…
SONATA WITH SOME PINE TREES BY PABLO NERUDA PABLO NERUDA: Sonata with Some Pine Trees In the half-sun of long days let us draw our tired bones together let us…
I have always been fond of reading, the habit of looking through second hand bookstores and bouquinistes have followed me in my travels ..Powell's of Portland.. River Seine.. Tokyo.. Carlton…
I am absolutely in love with my language, once i realized its intricacies, nuances as well as its analytical nature and the abundance of words. There is word for it,…
I had an intense day in Cochin being with old and new friends both in Ernakulam and Mattancherry. and it was time to leave Cochin to get back to this…
One of the more delightful aspects of traveling is the chance to get to know the people who inhabit in their countries and not in the context of a commercial…
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 always had an interest in knowing the history of ancient jewish communities which for various reasons disappear over the course of time. Since the establishment of the Jewish State…
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…
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 temperature outside is a pleasant 20 C, much cooler than the 34 C, in this presqu'île de Quiberon, Brittany. A very good article arrived from The New York Times,…
Many years ago I remember seeing an CD with a lovely name : and enjoyed the music, Cubans and African musicians singing classic Cuban songs.. Today walking along the side…
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…
I was eager to light the candles tonight, as the sun sunk over a gorgeous horizon lit by the candle that is the Sun being passed over to the other…
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…
During this month of July, I have been travelling at a hectic pace and my thoughts had to be recorded on paper, which i will upload later. But this also…
