10 Months On The Road – From Africa to South America | Adrian Seah
Roughly ten months ago, we embarked on this round the world journey. Backpacks stuffed, camera at the ready, and hearts full of anticipation. I had left my job to take off on this trip, this flight of fancy, travelling Africa and South Read more …
More Portraits from Trinidad Cuba | Adrian Seah
Beautiful as Trinidad is, it would be missing the point simply to visit and the see the ’sights‘, nothing in particular has been packaged as an attraction, not in the typical tourist sense of the word anyway. The true magic Read more …
Portraits from Trinidad Cuba | Adrian Seah
In what turned out to be our favourite city in Cuba, we found ourselves in Trinidad. Immediately, we could sense a distinctively different vibe when we got off the bus, apart from the initial surge of jiniteros elbowing and jostling their way Read more …
Domino players by a sidestreet in Trinidad Cuba | Adrian Seah
The old cobbled street was proving a bit of a challenge in the dim light, the scattered street lamps casting strange shadows on the peeling colonial era buildings lining either side of the road. Our footsteps were unsure and the Read more …
A View From The Roof In Cienfuegos Cuba | Adrian Seah
The sticky heat lingered in the afternoon air like a damp blanket, stifling and energy-sapping. It was midday, and the streets were quiet. The few people ambling about-children in the school uniforms, topless men with sun weathered skin hauling large Read more …
Feeding stray dogs and killing time in Viñales Cuba | Adrian Seah
A number of very emaciated and scruffy stray dogs roam the main streets, sniffing around the feet of uncomfortable patrons at the restaurants looking for scraps. Their fur clumpy and in patches, rib cages painfully visible, I reckoned the pickings Read more …
Nightfall in Havana Cuba | Adrian Seah
When the light fades in Havana and the mercury drops a notch, Havana takes on a distinctly different character. The streets, normally so full of people and scorching hot, are now largely empty. The flicker from the television sets in Read more …
What I learned from the people of Havana Cuba | Adrian Seah
You would think that all the years of international isolation, economic sanctions and general hardship would have exacted a devastating toll on the people on the island of Cuba. That they would be angry, hostile and bitter with Americans and Read more …
Havana – Cuba and The Impending Winds of Change | Adriah Seah
When one encounters a new place for the first time, the barrage of new information and stimulus on the brain usually causes it go scrambling to make sense of the situation by comparing it with a mental list of other Read more …