Since I am in San Francisco I get to speak Spanish often and that makes me really happy, almost as happy as finding what they call in the market “Latin Foods”. In downtown Toronto the Spanish influence is very poor or nonexistent. You can get a variety of stuff at a small Latin American store […]

Hace unos dias he conversado con un americano de San Francisco que hablaba el castellano bastante bien. Resulta que además de la gran influencia latina en la ciudad y de estudiar el Español en la escuela, sus abuelos eran procedentes de Galicia, así que de pequeño lo hablaba en casa. Para mi sorpresa, no tan […]

I am sitting at home after seven days of non stop going around sunny San Francisco in the company of two great friends, one coming from Toronto and the other visiting from Paris. On the way to the airport I asked one of them to tell me three words to define his impressions of the […]

Lately I have been taking advantage of the Groupon Deals and Living Social promotions  for the much needed yoga. Every time I check there is some kind of yoga membership for $20 for 15 or 20 classes. There is so much to try out there. I have been going to the Yoga Centre Toronto, near Yonge […]

A super hot day and a seven hour walk has ended. I have been going around so much this Saturday that I thought I was going to faint. I didn’t want to stop and I started wondering if all those nice neighbours saying Hi to me were going to pick me up from the sidewalk. […]

The Bay Area Flamenco Festival will have a very special flamenco singer this Sunday: Diego El Cigala. I had a previous post a couple of months ago regarding his presentation in Toronto at the beginning of November and now I see a poster at Emeryville that promotes his show this weekend at the UC Berkeley. […]

Today I woke up to a cloudy morning, went food shopping before noon and rushed back home (third floor room) to endulge myself with hot cocoa and cookies. I was planning on doing some reading but only after seeing the news for five minutes my friend from Madrid contacted me on Skype. We have been […]

Mariño is an excellent guitarist from Havana who is best known in Cuba for his flamenco sounds. I have been listening this morning to his CD from 2003 “Alma Gitana” and started wondering what happened to his career since I left Cuba. From what I could find on the internet he lives and works in […]

This video was directed by X Alfonso in order to promote the Lizt Alfonso Ballet show “Vida”. The interpreters of the song are Omara Portuondo and Eme Alfonso/ Ele Valdes from Sintesis.