This will be the place where I will recount some of my travel adventures. In the coming months there will be articles on some of the most interesting destinations that I have visited in my 35 year travel career.
About this photo: the year was 1979. I was floating down the Gambia River in Senegal. A luxury villa was nowhere in sight. Dakar the capital of Senegal is a very modern and somewhat sophisticated city, but just a few kilometers outside of the capital, the real Africa was there to see. More to come in a future article!
Don’t Cry for me Cartagena
or Who had the Propina?
Cartagena, Colombia: some call it the heroic city – for the many battles with marauding pirates it withstood during Colonial times. The famous Colombian poet Luis Carlos Lopez wrote a poem about Cartagena. He thought that Cartagena was an incredibly easy and relaxed place. In the poem he said that Cartagena was such a cool, calm and easygoing place, that he compared it to a comfortable pair of ‘Old Shoes’. It’s the place that artists and writers flock to; a place that is reminiscent of Havana during it’s heyday. Although Colombia has been thought of as a somewhat violent place during the past years, Cartagena has remained a bastion of tranquility…. the country’s safe harbor.
I had the soup with the fallen mango!!