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Tag Archives: Habana
Guadalajara, chilly Cuba, next stop New York
Well Guadalajara seems a distant memory of sitting in the bar of the Hilton Hotel catching friends as they flew past from one film or party to another. We did a press conference, we met some of the recent graduates, … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Film
Tagged cameras, children, cuba, EICTV, Guadalajara, Habana, Mexico, New YOrk, New York Havana Festival, Office Depot, pollution, resolving problems, The French school, Walmart, XBOX, Zara
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1950′s wife in Havana
1950s woman I don’t know what it is about my life right now but I feel like a 1950’s wife. Is it Cuba or is it being the wife of the director of the film school or a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Film, Music
Tagged 1950´s, bicultural, bilingual, career, cuba, don draper, film school, Habana, high heels, intellectual life, Lucky strikes, lustful, Madmen, psychologists, reggaeton, sociologists, suffocating, the swing, tight dresses
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Cuba blogging
I am not sure who reads my blog. I never check the statistics, not even sure if I know how. I don’t do all the right things to promote it to the blogging community. I don’t read many other blogs … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cuba, culture, Family
Tagged blogging, British Guatemalan family, CO Durham, cuba, different lives, ENglish, English language, faithful readers, family, friends, Habana, no moaning, northern, parochial, serendipity, Yorkshire
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Parties, Cadillacs, potatoes, Valentines ……and blogging
Yesterday was Valentines day. They call it the day of love here for anybody or anything. You can even say I love my cow. I actually prefer this to the sloppy fake romantic rubbish that has been marketed to us … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Film
Tagged blogging, Cotswolds, cottage pie, facebook, film school, Habana, Havana, Hemingway's House, immigrant mother- emigre-Guatemala- Antigua-Cuba-Lucy Jordan-Milan Kundera-The Unbearable LIghtness of Being-England-serendipity-mother tongue-exile-identity-culture-Cuba, Las Terrazas, Malecon, party, photos, potatoes, social research, steak, strawberry jam, tescos, Valentines day, vegetarian cuisine Cuba
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Family life, my first Havana Birthday and the first US official visit to the Film School
We have been here just over 6 months now and my family is settling into a new rhythm. I have just celebrated my first Birthday in Cuba, and for the first time in years, I didn’t organise anything, as being … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Guatemala
Tagged art, bilingual, CHief of Mission, cuba, drugs, EICTV, film school, French, Habana, Havana, James Bond, JEFF, John Caulfield, Latin America, Plaza de Cathedral, rugby in Cuba, US INterest Section, violence
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New Latin American Cinema ……… and me.
The dust is settling on yet another Latin American Film Festival. I am becoming a veteran of these events, which is rather strange for a person who has never made a film in her life, Latin or otherwise. I am … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Fashion, Film, Guatemala, Music, UK
Tagged British Guatemalan Co productionsFundacion del neuvo cine latin americano, British Mum in Cuba, EICTV, EL Nacional HOtel, Guadalajara film festival, Habana, Havana, Havana Film Festival, Icaro Film Festival, James Bone, serendipity or madness
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Life is surreal ……. but I like it
I sat in the auditorium of the Museo de Belles Artes last night listening to some great British actors delivering a beautiful collection of Pinter’s plays and poems finishing with his incredibly powerful acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Film, Guatemala, UK
Tagged CHines video installations, cuba, EU, Habana, half term, Havana Vieja, Hemmingway Museum, Institue of Modern Art, Museo de Belles Artes, Nigeria, Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, Pinter, Roger Lloyd Pack, surreal, UN, United Nations Day
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Our house, the party and the French lover who fled the country
Our first party in our wonderful house all went very well. Everyone from the film school helped me to make it a success. Maeda arrived with flowers to fill the house from San Antonio and then a team of caterers … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Film, Guatemala
Tagged 25 years, 99 military beach club, a little gem, AL Capone, barman, Caribbean, Casinos, coco loco, cuba, Cubanacan, EICTV, Fidel, film script, FLores, Francesita, French lover, Fulgencio Batista, Guatemala gangsters, Habana, Habana Club, JFK, Mafia, party, primer avenida, Protocol House of EICTV, tranquility
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Quinta Avenida, Embassies and Air Con
A month has flown by and my life is still not sorted but we have done so much in such a short space of time. We need to remind ourselves, on those days when we both feel exhausted and I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Film, Music
Tagged African Film, Air con, Angola, BBC, count down traffic lights, cuba, Dutch, embassies, Ferrero Rochet, Film school Cuba, first month, French, French Embassy Habana, German, Guatemala, Habana, Havana, Hitchhiking in Cuba, interesting people, ipod, La Botella, La Habana, La Habane, Leftfield, Mexican Embassy Havana, MIramar, Mojitos, producers, QuInta Avenida, schools, supermarkets, UN
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Fuzzy hair, Grumpy Frogs, New Friends
Internet quite fast today in our little apartment in the film school, Saskia playing outside with a resident film school nanny and some other children of the film school. So ……… Rafa and I have had to stop our extended … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Film
Tagged ambition, brave, cuba, Fluffy hair, French School, grumpy frogs, Habana, Havana, new friends, reality, self esteem
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