Catalina Toma

Former travel guide, freelance translator, sociable, friendly person - just a few words to describe me. I simply love good music, traveling and dancing around the house. Being a new member of the team I try to bring you accurate information on the latest world events.

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A Travel Into Wedding Royals

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 28th 2011 | no comments

“I shall be marrying a prince!”- I can assuredly state that many women or better said girls out there have said this at a certain point in their early stage in life. It most probably all happened when inexplicably [...]

Chocolate Traveler-II

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 27th 2011 | no comments

A chocolate lover will probably choose to say that chocolate could make the world go round. And just if it doesn’t hold the ability to really make the world go round it can most surely make you go round the world tracing its sweetness in [...]

Chocolate Traveler

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 27th 2011 | no comments

“When your feet feel like they’re made of stones, / And your bones are full of lead, / And your muscles feel like they’re galvanized, / And the concrete’s in your head; / When your blood flows like molasses, / [...]

Thy Name Is Happy Easter!-II

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 19th 2011 | no comments

“Thou art the Sun of other days. / They shine by giving back the rays…” (John Keble, The Christian Year: Easter Days) Transmitting live on Easter from the sunny Greece may prove to be [...]

This Time For Africa

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 18th 2011 | no comments

“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.” (Ernest Hemingway) Running across Hemingway’s words I couldn’t but wish I started my Monday morning nowhere else but in Africa. But since I do not have the power to fly over miles and [...]

Journey Into Nomadic Lifestyle-II

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 15th 2011 | no comments

The journey into nomadic life takes us further on to the Mongolian lands, the land “of the eternal blue sky”, a country consisting mainly in vast areas of steppe, a country with no fences and thus a perfect place for all the nomads gathered on [...]

Journey Into Nomadic Lifestyle

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 15th 2011 | no comments

“I walk all around with no aim for location / One night I’m here, next I’m across the nation / With no plans for the future I wander the land / I do everything on the fly and unplanned /One night I find myself [...]

How Is Your Nose?

Posted in: Environment by Catalina Toma | April 14th 2011 | no comments

“Only the nose knows, / Where the nose goes, / When the door close.” (Muhammad Ali) The nose goes wherever you take it…this being applicable in the case of humans and animals as well, mainly because the same nose has made up its mind to [...]

Traveling Taboo-II

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 12th 2011 | no comments

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one’s little corner of the earth all one’s [...]

Traveling Taboo

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 12th 2011 | no comments

According to a saying well known by some and less known by others “Every land has its own law.” Like it or hate it our entire life gets to be governed by laws, ancient or newly installed ones, written or unwritten ones, yet nevertheless laws which we make for [...]

Espresso Yourself While Traveling-II

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 9th 2011 | no comments

“Be a coffee-drinking individual-espresso yourself!”- This got to be the way in which an anonymous person chose to express himself in matters of coffee! What will your way of doing the exact [...]

Espresso Yourself While Traveling

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 9th 2011 | no comments

Much like Harry Mahtar said once “I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.” And this gets to be the way many of us choose to orchestrate their mornings, letting the strong aroma of this brown chocolate liquid [...]

“Prisoner” Of The Bedouins Of Jordan-II

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 7th 2011 | no comments

Louis L’Amour once said that “You can’t fight the desert…you have to ride it.” And the best way to ride the desert of Jordan would be to start your ride in the valley of Wadi [...]

“Prisoner” Of The Bedouins Of Jordan

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 7th 2011 | no comments

Evoking images of Bedouins moving around or better said floating on the dunes of the desert, gliding on vast sandy lands, in fact lands consisting only in sand if we were to look at the desert part only…there is a [...]

Trees Growing Old

Posted in: Environment by Catalina Toma | April 4th 2011 | no comments

“Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.”-Karle Wilson Baker There still happen to be plenty of trees out there, as many as we allow them to be at times, yet those which happen to survive do it in their [...]

Next Stop: Beer-II

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 4th 2011 | no comments

“They who drink beer will think beer.” (Washington Irving) And just in case you wish to drink your senses all the way in and out then you may as well head towards Mexico City. Once there you may choose to party on tequila and beer. Being [...]

Next Stop:Beer

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 4th 2011 | no comments

“A long time ago, way back in history / When all there was to drink was nothing but cups of tea / Along came a man by the name of Charlie Mopps / And he invented a wonderful drink and he made it out of [...]

Under The Paris Sky-II

Posted in: Travel by Catalina Toma | April 1st 2011 | no comments

“Under the sky of Paris / Runs a happy river / Hum hum / During the night it lulls to sleep / The poor people of the street / Under the sky of Paris / God’s birds / Hum hum / Come from all over the world / To have a chat.” By taking a close look [...]