Umbrellas in Cuba
A quick one to say that Cubans really have the prettiest umbrellas! Loved the designs I saw here.

A quick one to say that Cubans really have the prettiest umbrellas! Loved the designs I saw here.

When deciding what I’d do for the 4 days I’d have to wait for Pedro and Raúl to return from the Galapagos, I discovered that the timing would overlap very nicely with the end of the 2nd annual Festival Internacional de Artes Vivas Loja (otherwise known as the Loja Festival). And given that I’d wanted to visit…
First day on the overland truck started with a quick overview of the truck itself, where everything goes and how everything works. Then it was loads of photos with the owners of the hostel and off down the tiny backstreets of Almaty in our humungous beast! Took forever to get out of Almaty, and then…
Poked my nose into the municipal library in Camagüey and it was like going back in time. No computers. No flexible furniture. Blackboard. Really not that many books. And card catalogues! Love it that Fidel has a whole drawer for himself 🙂
When it’s Arctic Char season in Greenland, you have to make the most of it! This invariably means that you end up with more fish than you can eat and fit in your freezer! One of the options to deal with this excess is drying some of the fish for later use. This practice has…
One of the reputations Cuba has is that it is the land of music. And while music is certainly much more prevalent and a much bigger part of the culture in Cuba than in Australia, it wasn’t quite on every street corner as you may be imagining. The no brainer way to enjoy some Cuban…
Those of you who have been following for a while know that I’m a massive fan of Greenlandic music. I had an awesome time at the Akisuanerit Festival in Nuuk in 2019, and one of the things I was looking forward to in moving to Sisimiut was that it is home to another of Greenland’s…