We sailed away to tropical Cayo Saetia. The island used to be the private holiday home of Fidel Castro and family, until 1994 when they stopped coming. You can now tour the island by Jeep […]
Author: Desiree Anstey
Journalist| Public Relations| Tourism Writer
Confederation Bridge during a snowstorm
Driving over the longest bridge over ice-covered waters in the world – Confederation Bridge. The bridge connects Prince Edward Island to the mainland of Canada, spanning the Abegweit Passage of the Northumberland Strait. It takes […]
Transparent fish in Cuba
The strange, but friendly transparent fish that could be found swimming along the shoreline of Holguin in Cuba.
The reason why I write
Around 18 years ago my dad was writing pages of his life…I plan to eventually finish that off in a book. An excerpt from my dad’s story goes: My mom Alice came rushing in and […]
Overcoming mountains
I have been hiking through the Alps in Austria for the past month. We traversed over a glacier, mildly missed an avalanche, clamoured across vertical slopes, and slept 1,000 metres underground in a cave. In […]
The truth about moving abroad
“Doesn’t this country have milk?” I said rather loudly while feverishly scanning every aisle of the grocery store, stopping customers dead in their tracks. Then a man going about his business extended his tanned brawny […]
