• Guide to Havana Cuba from the USA

    A Guide to Havana Cuba From the USA

    Peter and I both live in Florida, so when direct flights became available from Florida to Cuba, we both decided to make our bucket list dream come true by booking a trip. This article is based on our own personal experiences of visiting Havana, from booking our flights, to the places we’ve seen in Havana, where we stayed, and maybe even feature a Q&A as well in the end. Note that we might be making this in different parts, the articles of which will be linked to this original post. A Guide to Visiting Havana, Cuba (from the USA) Resources/Additional Reading: First Impressions of Cuba – an article Peter wrote…

  • A Journey To Cuba

    Our First Impressions of Cuba

    We describe our first impressions of Cuba, coming there from the United States, after they have loosened up some restrictions after a few years. Read on for more.

  • Things to do in Manila

    Things to do in Manila – Experiences from A Westerner

    We never know where we end up in life.  Sometimes you wander into a bar looking for a drink. Sometimes you stumble into a country on the other side of the world. The two events are different, but not unrelated. I grew up in Europe (Slovakia, to be more precise), lived most of my adult life in the United States, and, last year, married a Filipina.  That's not a trajectory that I could have predicted when I threw rocks into ditches as a 9-year old in Slovakia. I've visited the Philippines a few times now as a westernized adult, and it is quite an interesting place.  It is marketed as…