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Category Archives: Caribbean

Hiding in Plain Sight: a restaurant and radical art in Havana

January 17, 2018

26-28 February 2017. At the 1993 Havana Film Festival a film called Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate) won many …

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Riding the rails and trekking the trails: day trips from Trinidad, Cuba

December 2, 2017

22-25 February 2017. About twelve kilometres east of the town of Trinidad there are three long interconnected valleys. They are …

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Giant Rats and Prehistoric Lizards – The tropical paradise of Cayo Las Iguanas, Cuba.

November 4, 2017

24 February 2017. The breeze caresses our skin as the sun warms it. Don sits facing the sea. I sit …

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Trinidad de Cuba: for richer, for poorer

October 9, 2017

21-25 February 2017. We’re flying down the bumpy rutted street, the bicycle taxi bouncing all over the place as it …

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Clop Along Placidly – Viñales, Cuba.

September 12, 2017

20 February 2017. Sitting on the wooden bench seats of the horse-drawn cart, as we trot along the red dirt …

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Tobacco Road – Viñales, Cuba.

August 31, 2017

18-20 February 2017. I’m sitting on a low narrow concrete window ledge facing the covered concrete bus lane. In the …

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The Masters of Life Hacks – Havana, Cuba

August 2, 2017

13-17 February 2017. There are over two million people in Havana, over two million stories, all with similarities, and yet …

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Havana: Grand Dame of the Caribbean

July 23, 2017

13-17 February 2017. Even arriving in Cuba is different. We wait for an hour in the baggage collection area for …

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Fear at the beginning. Unusual for me. Perhaps prescient. I don’t know. Something could go wrong! After one of the flights we’d booked was cancelled and as we continued trying to book flights Don suddenly thought of a reading from the I Ching: Difficulty at the Beginning. At the beginning. It was still difficult in the middle, and all the way to the end. Latest blog post: Wow! What a Ride! An overview of seven weeks in Croatia and Greece. Link in bio.
Fear at the beginning. Unusual for me. Perhaps prescient. I don’t know. Something could go wrong! After one of the flights we’d booked was cancelled and as we continued trying to book flights Don suddenly thought of a reading from the I Ching: Difficulty at the Beginning. At the beginning. It was still difficult in the middle, and all the way to the end. Latest blog post: Wow! What a Ride! An overview of seven weeks in Croatia and Greece. Link in bio.
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Three weeks in Croatia. Beautiful, kind, and welcoming. We had some challenges, but the beauty of Croatia was worth it. These photos: Dinner on the balcony of our Airbnb on Vis island, and the incomparable Plitvice Lakes National park. Latest blog post: One Darn Thing After Another! Three Weeks In Croatia. Link in bio
Three weeks in Croatia. Beautiful, kind, and welcoming. We had some challenges, but the beauty of Croatia was worth it. These photos: Latest blog post: One Darn Thing After Another! Three Weeks In Croatia. Link in bio
Three weeks in Croatia. Beautiful, kind, and welcoming. We had some challenges, but the beauty of Croatia was worth it. These photos: The main square in the town of Hvar on the island of Hvar, and the harbour in Dubrovnik. Latest blog post: One Darn Thing After Another!

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