Nov 15, 2010
La Habana, Cuba.. The Moveable Feast
WHAT 3 EUROS WOULD BUY YOU AT THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKET IN CUBA 09 NOVEMBER 2010 Three large avacados, two Kg of Bananas, two kilograms of Guava, half a…
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Nov 15, 2010
Yoga in Cuba
Meeting with a Remakable Yogi in Havana, Cuba A line from Pablo Neruda’s poem always sticks in my mind when I am in La Habana, Cuba. In it the poet…
Nov 15, 2010
Bienvenidos a Cuba Welcome to Cuba…La Calor Humana
Bienvenidos a Cuba Cuban Hospitality and Cuban sense of Social Responsibility Exactly one month ago, the curator of the National Museum was in Paris and I was proud to show…
Nov 15, 2010
There are Seven Direct Flights a Day Miami to Havana
The Ambassdor from Egypt and an Upgrade to First Class Journeys to Cuba almost border on the surrealistic. The flight was supposed to leave Miami for Havana at 0300 pm…
Nov 15, 2010
La Habana, Cuba… Coincidences are not Casual
Casualidad es no tan Casual It is just you are not intelligent enough to understand it, said my Meskwaki teacher.. We tend to believe that things happen in a random…
Nov 15, 2010
Welcome Abstinence from Internet ….CUBA mi isla Rica
I am going into Exile, to use the abused word in MIami among Cuban Immigrants, most of whom since about 1962 have been economic migrants, from Internet. An extremely welcome…
Nov 15, 2010
Where is Quiberon? Kiberen?
Yet another Journey is about to begin: this one a very pleasant one to look forward to, to two places that I love, one day in Miami which would include…
Nov 15, 2010
To Live Longer, Eat Less: Less Quantity and More Quality
When asked to examine a Monk in the Upper Irrawady Region, I had to use all my prowess as an Anthropologist. What does a Monk Eat? When are his eating…
Nov 15, 2010
Affection to Affection, carrying a Net of Friendships.. Paris to KL Fourth time this year
I was made aware of the value of friendships very early in life, when for various reasons, my own family couldnt be with me (then or later in my life)…
Nov 15, 2010
First Snowflakes of the Season in Paris…Cambodian Food at the Japanese Quartier of Paris
While the Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving Day, an important holiday for them, there was nothing in Paris to remind one that such an important holiday of eating and celebrating and…
Oct 15, 2010
It is Nice to Dream about San Cristobal de la Habana
Reveries of a Born Traveler Three days after my birth, an astrologer was consulted who drew the map of the stars at the time of birth (a chart I still…
Oct 15, 2010
Yet another General Strike Looms…
I have a generational legacy to keep up, my Grand Father and Father were always on the side of the workers, even though they both held jobs in Education and…