Cartegena, Colombia-Part 1 It was my birthday week and I decided to go somewhere warm to celebrate. I have always wanted to go to Cartagena. My dreams of travel were inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magical book, “Love in the Time of Cholera” which was set in this old port city on Columbia’s northeast Caribbean […]
Cartagena, Colombia- Part 2 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, came to Cartagena in late April 1948 and created his literary masterpieces here. Cartagena became the muse for him as he unleashed his magical stories here. He became friends with the local poet Luis Carlos Lopez, and worked as a […]
We then drove to the French Riviera, known locally as Cote Azur which portrays a totally different scene…passing by its beautiful coastline, beaches and the mansions of the wealthy. We came to our hotel located outside Nice, located on the Mediterranean coast and the capital. It had its glitter and glamour during the 18th and […]
We headed towards Bordeaux to spend the night. As we were came to Bordeaux, we drove around a roundabout with statues of pilgrims walking the pilgrimage road, Santiago de Compostela, one of the beginner routes that goes through Bordeaux into Spain. Bordeaux was first settled by Celtics and later came under Roman rule but today is a thriving student […]
Memories of my first visit to Paris come rushing back, whenever I encounter French art, wine or pastry. At the time, I was a grad student at the University of Reading in England, so my friends and I could not indulge in the finer luxuries that Paris had to offer. However, even on student’s budget […]
Cape Town, South Africa-Part 2 Table Mountain and the National Botanical Gardens Next morning we took the hop-on and hop -off bus towards Table Mountain, a looming figure anywhere you go in Cape Town area. There is plenty wildlife here with many species of flora, porcupines, baboons and guinea-pigs or rodents called dassies who live […]
Cape Town, South Africa-Part 1 My dream trip was about to come true. I have always been active in issues of social justice and starting in the 1980s I joined the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. I worked closely with the African National Congress in New York, pushing for sanctions against South Africa and […]
Part 2 W e decided to explore the Source of the Nile for couple of days and drove east of Kampala towards Jinja town located right near the source of the Nile, along the shores of Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria is where the Nile River begins, and makes its amazing journey to the north to […]
Uganda-Kampala area and the Ugandan Wildlife Part 1 Africa is a continent that always held intrigue for me. We had visited Morocco few years back but that is a different Africa. I have always been waiting to see Sub-Saharan Africa, and the opportunity came last Xmas holidays when we decided to visit my daughter who […]
Singapore: The Lion City Let me give you a brief history of Singapore before I begin my recent trip there. Singapore is a city-state that lies at the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula. Singapore is comprised of many little islands, about 63 in all. The written historical record of Singapore goes back to late […]
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