On the verge of returning to Iceland (or Ísland in icelandic) I felt the need to return to it, to my old photos of it and the many more images I had in my mind, and what in the island …
Leve-leve island
São Tomé is small luscious island dropped over the equator, just outside the Atlantic coast of Africa, and kind of left there forgotten. Along with the even smaller Príncipe island form the second smallest country in Africa, one the most …
The doctor that heals
In dowtown Lisbon, right in front of a building where medicine has been taught for centuries, there’s a statue of a man. That man is called Sousa Martins, an accomplished doctor and teacher that lived in Lisbon during the 19th …
The place of the alder masks
Most of the masked traditions in Portugal happen in the Northwest of country, where the distance from the coast and the main cities, along with the mountains that stand in between, allowed these pagan traditions to survive. Lazarim is one …
After The Fall…
The Summer wildfires of 2017 in Portugal were particularly devastating, destructive and deadly… Every year there’s a wildfire season that goes through the hottest and driest months, has been a chronic issue for decades, specially in the central regions of …
Mientras tanto, en Cuba
One morning in Havana I realized I didn’t have enough “convertibles” for the day (Convertible is one of the two official currencies, mostly used by tourists), and that meant that the first thing I had to do that day was …