Some Cuban Rumba to end this hot day in the City…

Today a new blog was born. I have started taking photographs of the city’s old streetcars. Here is the first post: http://sanfranciscostreetcars.blogspot.com/

Havana has a party every time a Cuban living abroad visits the island. It is well known that for many years now many Cubans have been leaving their country in order to improve their economical situation, looking for better job conditions and more freedom to travel, buy a house or simply connect to the Internet. […]

Canada, USA and Cuba are taking it easy this Monday. Canadians are celebrating Thanksgiving, Americans their Columbus Day and Cubans their Independence Day. Long weekend for everyone. I start the celebration with classical music from my homeland, where everything started for me…

On Sunday, October,9th we danced to the playa music again and got a bit of the vibe from Burning Man, the last bit of energy for 2010. The Decompression Party was probably a 1% of what Burning Man is, a small replica of the most amazing festival and party in the world. The crowd was […]

This past Saturday I took my camera and chose Telegraph Hill as my destination. I walked down Market St. and my first pictures were not of the city architecture but of the SF Occupy protestors. The group passing by with signs was not huge but the energy was not low. I received a flyer and […]

Yesterday we went to Cupertino for a few hours. We strolled around the city hall, public library, had some mint mocha at Coffee Society and walked to the Apple Headquarters, known as 1 Infinite Loop. Several visitors were leaving flowers, baseball caps with the Apple logo and leaving messages for Steve Jobs. Some employees as […]

The San Francisco Apple store entrance is full of flowers, apples and notes thanking Steve Jobs for his incredible work. Sad faces have been drawn, but also messages of people that were inspired by his hard and constant labour to develop and perfect his products, giving us in the end a functional piece of art. People […]

  This is one of the Cuban bands that will be playing in the Jazz Plaza Festival 2011. Sintesis has been active and playing in Cuban and international stages since 1974. I would affirm that they are the most famous Cuban band experimenting and performing Afro – Cuban music mixed with rock and jazz sounds. […]

The dates for the Jazz Plaza Festival this year are December 15th to the 18th and it will be devoted to classical music. I was going through their website and looking at the great list of musicians participating this year. The list is precious. A trip to Havana it is definitely not a bad idea! […]

Por eso canto a las flores y a la manana que inspira… le canto a Cuba querida, la tierra de mis amores…

Today I had the privilege of attending a very private and simple ceremony of two friends tying the knot. I feel that we are living through so many things since the day we arrived to California, only a month ago! Last night we drove south to Aptos as we offered to take the pictures of […]