Company
This showed up alongside late afternoon. I thought it was a tug that would be with us till we leave port around 11, but he left without...
Prelude to the Panama Canal
Feliz Navidad, Panamanian style Having arrived in the port of Colón yesterday (Colón is Spanish for Columbus), today I spent nearly six...
‘Yes, we have lots and lots of bananas!’
Wheel of old-time oxcart used to transport molded sugar to market A number of you have been to Costa Rica, but this is my first time....
Okay, all you voyeurs...
I’ve had requests — okay, one request — to show you my Home Sweet Home from now till May 5... View from my balcony, early morning,...
Glitch Report
A couple of you have reported that when you receive an email notification, open the message and hit ‘Continue Reading,’ you see a blank...
Yah mon, chukka!
[Sorry about that. Somehow I published a draft yesterday, sans editing and sans photos. I know because one of my readers offered me a...
Cantores y Lulus
The highlight of yesterday’s exploration of the Local Culture of Cienfuegos was a concert given for us by the 19-singer Cantores de...
Cienfuegos, or One Hundred Fires
There is no story of 100 fires. Señor Fuegos was an early city father, though the city was founded, in the late 1800s, by French...
Bienvenido a Cuba!
Repeat after me: ‘Cooo-bah.’ And, yes, they still serve the first illegal cocktail I ever drank: a Cuba libre. And, yes, rum is the drink...
Passepartout Going Zero Dark Thirty
Mrs. Malaprop is misappropriating a military term to announce she will be ‘dark’ for the next 30 hours. I won’t take my laptop to Havana...
