St Martin/ Sint Maarten
St Martin and Sint Maarten, although they share one island, are two different countries. Sint Maarten, on the eastern side of the island, is one of the four autonomous constituent countries that form the...
Category: Destinations
Thai Funeral Traditions
The majority of Thai people are Buddhist and have traditionally preferred burial. However land is getting scarce in some places, particularly on island communities. As in China, it is customary for monks to be...
Chinese Funeral Traditions
We are all familiar with the Ancient Egyptian practice of entombing servants with their Pharaoh to serve him in the afterlife. A similar practice was done by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of...
Bahamas Celebration Cruise 2014
Our embarkation process from West Palm Beach, Florida, was delayed by the late release of the previous passengers by the police! Yes, the whole cruise was detained on their arrival in port at by...
The Yangtze River, 2012
Although we had been on boats in the Whitsundays we had never been on one with large numbers of people and never in a foreign land. Our four day river cruise on the Century...
