Places I’ve been. Places I want to go. Places YOU may want to go!
BERLIN…Look beyond the history — if you can — to find a happening place.
First impressions
Parting shots
The DOMINICAN REPUBLIC…aka “the DR.” Baseball, beaches and the world’s coldest beer.
FLORENCE…City or living art? You decide!
FRENCH POLYNESIA…Come for the scenic beauty. Stay for whatever reason you want. From guest columnist Samuel Autman.
HAMBURG…Green city, blue waters, red light district
IRELAND…Dublin and Waterford
JAPAN…How does Japan feel about black folks, and is it worth the cost and the jet lag to find out? This traveler says yes.
LONDON…”When a man is tired of London,” Samuel Johnson wrote, “he is tired of life.” Smart fella, that Samuel Johnson.
PARIS…Is it really necessary to say anything else?
SAN FRANCISCO…Maybe America’s most beautiful city. Definitely one of its most loved travel destinations.
STRASBOURG…Christmas market mecca, headquarters of a united Europe, and maybe the world’s best college town.
VANCOUVER…Almost too beautiful to be real.
VENICE…Living treasure, and endangered species.
Costa Rica also has a Black heritage Celebration Tour. Costa Rica is multi-ethnic, with a population that has roots in indigenous
tribes, Europe and Africa. The ancestors of Costa Ricans with African roots
arrived in different ways. A small number of African slaves were brought to
Costa Rica by the Spanish during the Colonial period, but they intermarried
and lost their black identity. The second migration of blacks was in the
1870′s when workers from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands were hired by
Minor Cooper Keith, an American who was given the concession of building a
railroad from the San Jose capital to Puerto Limon on the Caribbean coast.
When the railroad went bankrupt, the workers were paid in land along the
railroad tracks and many found work on the emerging banana plantations of
the newly-created United Fruit Company. Let me know if you are interested in learning more about this tour.
Definitely. Send whatever details you have. And let me know how the response went to the posting on the paris tour.