GLOBE TROTTER'S DIARY ( NOV, 2015)

Follow me Caffé

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f you are in Manhattan, NY, NY, don’t miss dropping in into Follow Me Caffé.   A European like bistrot on Lexington Ave. in Manhattan, Follow Me used to house intimate and dating couple.

FOLLOW ME also invites you to taste its spicy dish fish while sipping beer and coffee...follow me any way. 

Good for diner by candle light. A good  relaxing place. Lexington Ave is so long !

    

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS

Dominican neighborhood, Washington Heights, NY, NY is home to thousands Dominicans who dance, eat and sing as if they were in the Malecon, this beautiful Santo Domingo seafront. A Dominican middle class is growing there while getting a bite of the big American apple.

Cuba Smokes  on

Old  HAVANA

Havana Cigar is part of the Cuban American peace process after the cold war years. A Fuente mark Rosario Gran Reserve is smoking somewhere under the remnants of the Berlin Wall.

kick off cuba

 

Wolgang Wunsh dreams of making Cuban children happy and famous through football.  A man of heart and passion, he is about to vulgarize more and more soccer among the poor  all over the world. Mr wunsh lives in Berlin.

The Children of Sekou

                  A Berlin- based proud VIP African,   Cisse is a kind of paternalistic and wise man who is able to solve everything. Living among his Guinean roots and memories, he doesn’t think there was  a kind of golden age in Guinea bySekou Toure times.  He still feels disappointed at the time Sekou said no to general de Gaulle. Even though many African citizens  were then proud,  Mr Cisse has a mixed feeling about the Sekou move. But history is history. Cisse tries now to reinvent himself and his country along with many fellow countrymen

MARAKAYOU

It‘s unbelievable. I am still watering at the mouth  while thinking about the Marakayou, this fish food served with white rice or plantain at the Pelisson this African restaurant located not too far from  Charle Roi, the main ave of Bruxelles. Africans and foreigners still argue on African food they find eadible and so healthy, whatever they are goat or vegetables, but the Marakayou is unique. The morue is a little bit salty, but with a lot of flesh and a something very exciting. A easing going food you can swallow more and more, Marakayou is unforgettable and makes you forget where you are/




the Rwanda girl

-Where‘re you from? We’ve been asking to the barely 19 year- old girl who has been serving us?

-From Rwanda?

-Where is your father?

-He died

-And your mother?

-She died

A silence fell and we’ve continued eating and she serving at the Pelisson, Brussels

70 000 AMERICANs in Deutschland

 
What are they doing there ? They work, study and live there. Many stay after the war, we have been told. Rrecently at a cocktail party, contry music and drink remind us of  the american presence in Berlin.

Roman REWARD

Roman ruins continue to feed our imagination and our feeling of past while marveling at some fading grandeur But when running into ordinary people, don’t overlook them, you never know

Buena fortuna, signore, greeted me that morning a young beggar with a smiling face. That   was enough to overcome a kind of boring mood. It was so nice that I even glanced at the color of happiness

Lesson:  Better take the time to listen to everybody. This was my best souvenir from Roma

BERLIN COUPLE

Berlin is vibrant even when the weather is bad. People are biking,  Some  are sipping coffee at sidewalk bistorts, others are jogging under the fall sky; while  passersby are moving  fast aiming at something  nobody knows, but every where the mood is a joyful and relaxing one as if Berlin wants nothing else but live  by its own  standards.

 In fact, for a city a little bit ebullient, couples want to be different and live a life on their own. I like to watch so many of them go hand in hand, a way to say that being in love with each other is already a life time process. So, why waste so much time in other boring endeavors?