ISLAS BELLAS

Clearly I've been away from this blog for almost a year.  Understandable given I'm a MOM now, to the cutest six month old there eve...

This is fast becoming my favourite beach to hang out at. And you can see why - there's not a soul! In fact very few people visit this...

As promised, here is a visual on the purple mangoes. I was so tempted to walk up to the house and ask if I could pick one.

Everyone's got mango fever here in Cayman and rightly so. If you've lived in a tropical land, you know the hot summer is the time f...

Why is it that every time I go out snorkeling, it inadvertently turns cloudy. Is someone trying to tell me something? No matter. Here are so...

We were in Havana, Cuba this past weekend, such is the advantage of living in Cayman - quick weekend getaway trips, with direct flights to b...

The 21st Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada has come to an end and even though Caymanian Dow Travers didn't win a medal, I am sure it ...

When I was about 10, we took a weekend trip to a fabulously deliciously cool place a few hours away from Bombay. This was Nasik , and it wa...

This is what happens when you throw a chunk of bread into the ocean. Word spreads and big ones the length of your arm, begin to surround you...

Someone went through a whole lot of trouble to creatively fashion this beautiful gigantic turtle out of sand somewhere on the Seven Mile Bea...

There's nothing like a few tremors to bring out the terror in people. That being said, we were fortunate that we were nowhere near the ...

Did anyone feel that minor earthquake this morning? Anyone? Update: FROM RADIO CAYMAN Cayman Hit by 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake 19/01/2010 At ...

Because I have never seen a pelican up close, especially not at such close proximity, and because just looking at the thumbnail of the secon...

Here's a Bermuda street sign. Many of them are like this, ' conveniently ' placed at the bottom of a wall. It would make sens...

I have neglected ye long enough and I am sorry. So, here's to a Happy, Healthy, Safe & Blessed New Year. And yes, I'm here and...

Shaking off my writer's block, laziness and the cold I left behind in Toronto a little over a week ago, just to let you know that this b...

A perfect reminder for Monday morning, don't you think?

How do you avoid being laid off from the work force? "Work hard, come in early and stay late." This is what Bermuda's Royal ...

Living on an island means the perputal presence of sand in your car, at all and any time of the year. It also means never having to clean i...

Pirate's Week is almost here, and before you know Christmas will be soon to follow in what will herald another New Year. Bet you're...

This place! Oh this place! You'd think by now I'd be used to the way a small island operates, especially since Bermuda + Cayman no...

I am sure I killed a lot of trees today. It was NOT a good day. Lots to print/photocopy at work, and considering not many places recycle h...

Toronto. September 2009. A family reunion. Not to mention gorgeous foliage to look at. Here's a piece. Wish I had more to show you.

Post # 501...oh boy! Let's get cracking. Nothing like talking about money, right? When I was really young, the term Money Laundering d...

Here in Cayman, there are so many occurrences that one may hear about through the grapevine, and then only to be surprised when it doesn...

A Cayman facts and figures article of various things starts of with...' At the end of 2008 there were 2171 goats in the Cayman Islands...

The government has overspent, but that's what governments everywhere do. So in an order to 'replenish' some of this cash, it ha...

You know you're Bermudian...if using the words Bermuda and Triangle in the same sentence irritates you.

You know you're Caymanian when....you make fun of Jamacians when you're in Cayman, but walk, talk, and hang out with them when you ...