Wah Gwan in Kingston, Jamaica? Visiting the Bob Marley Museum and Trench Town Culture Yard Wah gwan? Or what’s going on? is Patois, the spoken language of Jamaicans and is as common a greeting as hello or whassup? If you’re feeling all right, answer irie, but if everything is really good, you could say every […]
Out of Africa with Isak Dinesen: A visit to the Karen Blixen Museum in Denmark “I am not a novelist, really not even a writer; I am a storyteller.” Karen Blixen By Laurieanne Wysocki Isak Dinesen, best known for her memoir Out of Africa, also wrote short stories, among others, Seven Gothic Tales and Babette’s […]
In Stykkisholmur, Iceland, prepare for the worst food you’ve can imagine By Laurieanne Wysocki Many things come to mind when we think of Iceland –- ice-capped glaciers and lava fields like a lunar rock. Waterfalls and geysers. Vikings in horned helmets and guys with colorful names like Herald the Bluetooth and Eric the Red. Perhaps […]
By Laurieanne Wysocki I left Boston Logan Airport on a cold December morning and less than five hours later was on one of those world-renowned white sandy beaches of Aruba having a lunch of wood-grilled mahi-mahi and waiting for nothing more than the waiter to bring the next Aruba Ariba, the island’s favorite libation. With […]
By Laurieanne Wysocki The only way to become an honorary member of Newfoundland is to get ‘screeched’. Even if being an honorary member isn’t your thing, this is a great opportunity to meet, hang out, and have a lot of fun with the local Newfies. Attend a ‘screech-in’ at any one of the handful of bars […]
