Tips for Old-fogie Globetrotters
Tips for old-fogie travelers from another old-fogie who has just returned from his first trip abroad after a thirteen years abstinence!(1)Window seats on airplanes are wonderful but perhaps not the best for old- fogies whose legs and prostrates are not what they were 30- 40-,50 years ago .The WC is easily available for those on […]
“Everybody talks about the Weather but no one does anything about it“ American author Mark Twain
It is another cold, rainy day in what used to be tropical Rio de Janeiro.As I head for the ICS (Institute for Climate and Society) in Humaita (Rua General Dionisio 14), I am wearing a vest, long-sleeved shirt and a hoodie, or jacket with a hood and carrying an umbrella.I might as well be in […]
The White Tiger: A Novel which portrays a changing INDIA
It has been thirty five years(!) since I performed oboe recitals in Mumbai and Poona and a mob tried to lynch our taxi in Delhi, India yet this wondrous, magical and dystopian culture continually returns to haunt me.And over twenty five years ago I was playing my oboe for belly dance classes taught by my […]
Joao Pessoa Diary (Paraiba state, northeastern Brazil)
Your correspondent is one of the most reluctant persons to leave home.For prior to arriving in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s (!),I had resided in various parts of the world and know only too well the tears and anguish involved in departing from one place and going to reside in another.On the other hand, […]
South African memories or ”Have Oboe will Travel”
(Chapter I?) Due to this modern miracle called Facebook we never seem to lose people from our past.So as I write this among my five or six readers are people who attended my “farewell” party when I departed New York City in the late 1960s for “a little out of town experience” as well as […]