I am sitting in a cafe in London listening to Fleet Foxes, drinking a mocha and seeing people passing by. I could declare myself in a state of pure happiness if I was not so tired and sleepless after the over night flight. The city looks exactly the way I imagined, just like New York […]

While the temperatures drop in the Northern and Southern hemispheres every year the Cubans have it simple there in the “middle”. It makes me laugh how with 17 degrees the Cubans, including me, talk amazed about how cold it is. My grandma must be with a turtle neck sweater and two blankets watching TV. Although, […]

A couple of days will pass and I will be at the doors of a whole new decade. As weird as it sounds I will be a 30 years old woman. But, do I really feel like one? Why the fuss about turning 30? Is there a chip inside us that turns on and suddenly […]

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/

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…

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 […]

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 […]

About a year ago I heard about 23andMe  and the possibility to get to know my genetic history and ancestry. A few months ago I got a kit, spit into a tube and sent my saliva to the lab for analysis. I was hoping to find something exciting. Even though I was pretty convinced that […]