I didn’t know what to expect from Slovenia, I had chose to go there because it was fairly easy for me to get there from Italy and I had heard good things. After arriving at Bergamo airport, I took a…
Plovdiv International Folk Festival
I entered the tourist center in the old city hoping they could give me some information about hearing/seeing some folk music and dance in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. I had heard about a tourist restaurant that holds nightly shows but I…
It’s been a long time!
Whew! It has been a long time. I keep looking at the date of my last post and I can’t believe it was over 2 years ago. So what have I been doing and why I haven’t I posted anything?…
A Village of Berber Women, a Field and Me
I was just coming back from a walk with Sandy, the dog, by my side. As I approached the Berber Cultural Center where I was staying just outside Imintanout in Morocco, I could see one of the girls who…
Learning to Practice
I sat quietly eating my lunch, listening to the conversations of the people sitting around me. I was at an Arabic music retreat and there’s a lot you can learn by listening in. The people next to me were talking…