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FRENCH PARADOX EXPLAINED: IN ACTION IN NANTES, FRANCE AT RESTAURANT LA LOCA For people who are QUANTITATIVELY minded, they compare numbers to numbers and never about what makes the numbers…
E very two years, a watchdog group of Environmentalist, gain the data from the US Department of Agriculture and USDA and publish a list of vegetables and fruits which have…
Ahmad Shamloo's poetry was introduced to me an Iranian friend and I was immediately attracted to it: I saw both Pablo Neruda and Ananda Pramoedya Toer in his words. The…
I had just arrived in Miami after a long trip from Cochin in Kerala India via Singapore and the long non stop flight from Singapore to New York and then…
It was the day of excellence during the heavy rain on the part of the dentist who drove through the sheets of rain to attend to my teeth. Tonight would…
Mr Ranjit the manager of the centuries old heritage hotel in the heart of Fort Cochin, TOWER HOUSE HOTEL, informed me that my room had been upgraded. I had no…
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…
In the early part of the years 2000s, I visited and stayed in the beautiful village of Baracoa in Cuba .. so much so that i was never away more…
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE FLYING SAUDIA: I AM GLAD HE ALI AKBAR IS RUNNING Qatar Airways WITH HIS ASIAN CREW I have been partial to flying Qatar Airways ever since that…
It was our turn to drop in on the neighbours. A short ride to a nearby village of Kerniscob (village of the Bishop in Breton), it was a happy moment…
I am staying with a French couple at the seaside small town of Quiberon in Brittany. They are bretons. They invited another breton couple they had known for a long…