Iemanja: A Uruguayan celebration of the Yoruba goddess of the sea

Uruguay is famous for its endless pastures and beaches, its yerba mate tea, tango, and candombe music, which, with its African roots, epitomises the country’s rich cultural and ethnic diversity. The Yoruba religion is a further African feature that has penetrated this Latin American country, through the annual celebration of Iemanja, goddess of the sea. … Read More

Vegan Christmas Fayre in London

  London, as well as Prague, is a city replete with feasting events in the run up to Christmas. The shiny and glittering shop windows in Oxford Street entice their customers, like the other London streets, with illuminated Christmas decorations, enticing everybody to sit in one of the traditional English pubs. The picturesque London Hornton … Read More

My journey around Scotland

  Scotland is a country of green, which spreads everywhere in all possible shades. A lot of gorges and valleys are filled by lakes of glacial origin, which the Scots do not call a ´lake´ like their English counterparts, but a ´loch´. The colours of the uplands are interspersed with extensive moorland. On the plains … Read More