Hemingway happiness, horrors and places to visit - and a six word story challenge

 

Hemingway House

The top Hemingway attraction is the museum at Key West. He had a menagerie of animals. Including the famous Hemingway cats. He also travelled around the world.

Hemingway History & Books

I saw a film based on a Hemingway book about a soldier who falls in love with a nurse. The whole things made no sense. After reading that the author himself fell in love with a nurse, but she later married somebody else, and that Hemingway was recruited as a spy, this unlikely jumbled work of supposed fiction turns out to be based on fact and makes more sense.

I had also wondered why Hemingway was honoured by a statue in Cuba. Now I know he lived there and was honoured.  Although he met Castro only once, they admired each other.

Hemingway\s house answers some queetions and poses others. He killed animals but kept many animals. For examples, six toed cats renamed Hemingway cats.

Travel Landmarks to Look For, For Hemingway Fans

Whether you are amazed and awed or appalled, you cannot help being interested in Hemingway. As a writer I love the story about the six word story challenge. He is often quoted as having answered this challenge, but during his lifetime it was not recorded, and it was found  to have been used years earlier by others. 

The Six Word Story Challenge

The challenge is, write A novel summed up in six words? For sale, baby shoes, never worn. 

I could easily write another similar to that. For sales, small gun, used once.

Alternatively

For sale, gun, one careful owner.

Gun. Used once. One careless owner.

For sale. Gun and five bullets.

For sale, small house, distress sale.

Discount, murder victim's ouse for sale.

Missing millionaire's house for wale. Executors.

For sale. Wedding dress. Never worn.

For sale. Wedding dress. Worn twice.

What about a five word story.

For sale. Diary. Christmas gift. Unused..

For sale. Thirties car. Never driven.

For sale. Wooden coffin. Not needed.

For sale. Left shoes. Never worn. 

For sale, tomb, book cancer recovery.

For sale, fake banknotes, offers invited.

Missing, fiance named John, numerous aliases.

Wanted. Man with machinegun. Don't approach.

For sale. Titanic lifeboat. Not seaworthy.

Discount. Groom's outfit with bullet holes.

For sale smiling Mummy. Maybe fake.

For sale,haunted church, empty graveyard.

Clothes for quadruplets, or four twins.

Identical twins seek part time work.

Heminsgway's home in Florida, USA

Statue of Hemingway in Cuba

Maybe you can pick up some moere six word story ideas or title on your travels.

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Sorting Out The Caribbean, from the Bahamas, Belize and Bermuda to the US Virgin Island

 13 countries

We went on holiday from the USA to St Maarten/St Martin, the island which is half French and half Dutch. Double the experience of languages, food and culture. A chance to keep up my French. But learn another language.

I shall look at languages, food, and landmarks and religion.

LEARN LANGUAGES

Language[edit]

Main article: Languages of the Caribbean

Spanish (64%), French (25%), English (14%), Dutch, Haitian Creole, and Papiamento are the predominant official languages of various countries in the region.

( Although a handful of unique creole languages or dialects can also be found in virtually every Caribbean country. Other languages such as Caribbean Hindustani, Chinese, Javanese, Arabic, Hmong, Amerindian languages, other African languages, other European languages, and other Indian languages can also be found.)

FAVOURITE FOOD

Favourite or national dishes[edit]

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Doubles, one of the national dishes of Trinidad and Tobago

Arroz con gandules, one of the national dishes of Puerto Rico

• Anguilla – rice, peas and fish
• Antigua and Barbuda – fungee and pepperpot
• Bahamas – Guava duff, Conch Salad, Peas n' Rice, and Conch Fritters
• Barbados – cou-cou and flying fish
• Belize – rice and beans, stew chicken with potato salad ; white rice, stew beans and fry fish with cole slaw
• British Virgin Islands – fish and fungee
• Cayman Islands – turtle stew, turtle steak, grouper
• Colombian Caribbean – rice with coconut milk, arroz con pollo, sancocho, Arab cuisine (due to the large Arab population)
• Cuba – platillo Moros y Cristianos, ropa vieja, lechon, maduros, ajiaco
• Dominica – mountain chicken, rice and peas, dumplings, saltfish, dashin, bakes (fried dumplings), coconut confiture, curry goat, cassava farine, oxtail
• Dominican Republic – arroz con pollo with stewed red kidney beans, pan fried or braised beef, salad/ ensalada de coditos, pastelitos, mangú, sancocho, locrio
• Grenada – oil down, Roti and rice & chicken
• Guyana – roti and curry, pepperpot, cookup rice, methem, pholourie
• Haiti – griot (fried pork) served with du riz a pois or diri ak pwa (rice and beans)
• Jamaica – ackee and saltfish, callaloo, jerk chicken, curry chicken
• Montserrat – Goat water
• Puerto Rico – yellow rice with green pigeon peas, saltfish stew, roasted pork shoulder, chicken fricassée, mofongo, tripe soup, alcapurria, coconut custard, rice pudding, guava turnovers, Mallorca bread
• Saint Kitts and Nevis – goat water, coconut dumplings, spicy plantain, saltfish, breadfruit
• Saint Lucia – callaloo, dal roti, dried and salted cod, green bananas, rice and beans
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – roasted breadfruit and fried jackfish
• Suriname – brown beans and rice, roti and curry, peanut soup, battered fried plantain with peanut sauce, nasi goreng, moksie alesi, bara, pom
• Trinidad and Tobago – doubles, curry with roti or dal bhat, aloo pie, phulourie, callaloo, bake and shark, curry crab and dumpling
• United States Virgin Islands – stewed goat, oxtail or beef, seafood, callaloo, fungee

Goat water is a goat stew.

LANDMARKS & ACTIVITIES

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Countries and territories[edit]

Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and Puerto Rico, often grouped as the Greater Antilles, are by far the largest islands in the area and the most visited by travellers. The Caribbean also includes the Lucayan Archipelago to the north, which is comprised of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Lesser Antilles, a group of much smaller islands to the east.

Countries of the Caribbean

Bahamas Archipelago of islands and cays surrounded by coral reefs off the coasts of Florida. One of them was the first piece of American soil Columbus put his foot on.

Bermuda (Outside of image map, see dynamic map) Small and wealthy British overseas territory in the Atlantic, known for a type of shorts and the supposedly mysterious triangle.

Cayman Islands Known for offshore banking, and a great diving destination.

Cuba The largest Caribbean island-nation, marked by decades of socialist government.

Jamaica An island of tall mountains, birthplace of reggae and a Commonwealth Realm.

Haiti Founded by former slaves who won their freedom and then independence against the might of revolutionary and Napoleonic France. Today, having struggled against conflicts and natural disasters, Haiti has relative political stability and security, and is again becoming attractive for those seeking a road less traveled.

Dominican Republic A fast-growing economy with some of the oldest colonial cities in the hemisphere.

Puerto Rico A United States territory with bustling nightlife, as well as great inland sceneries.

Lesser Antilles (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Saba, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sint Eustatius, U.S. Virgin Islands, Barbados, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago) Small islands facing the open Atlantic. Many of them are dependencies of other countries.

Leeward Antilles (Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire) Also known as the ABC islands, these islands off the coast of Venezuela are associated with the Netherlands.

Turks and Caicos Islands Fabulous beaches and offshore banking.

Other areas include:

• Belize, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname are often considered part of the Caribbean as they share a common cultural heritage.

Mountains of St Lucia.

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Religion[edit]

See also: Religion in the Caribbean

Havana Cathedral (Catholic) in Cuba completed in 1777

Holy Trinity Cathedral, an Anglican Christian cathedral in Trinidad and Tobago

Temple in the Sea, a Hindu mandir in Trinidad and Tobago

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Memorial Masjid, a Muslim masjid in Trinidad and Tobago

A Jewish synagogue in Suriname

A Haitian Vodou altar

Christianity is the predominant religion in the Caribbean (84.7%).^[76] Other religions in the region are Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Rastafari, Buddhism, Chinese folk religion (incl. Taoism and Confucianism), Baháʼí, Jainism, Sikhism, Kebatinan, Traditional African religions, Yoruba (incl. Trinidad Orisha), Afro-American religions, (incl. Santería, Palo, Umbanda, Brujería, Hoodoo, Candomblé, Quimbanda, Orisha, Xangô de Recife, Xangô do Nordeste, Comfa, Espiritismo, Santo Daime, Obeah, Candomblé, Abakuá, Kumina, Winti, Sanse, Cuban Vodú, Dominican Vudú, Louisiana Voodoo, Haitian Vodou, and Vodun).

Useful Websites

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/caribbean-countries.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean

How To Learn History From Statues, Street Names And Museums Worldwide: Cuba, USA, UK and more

Mount Rushmore, USA. Wikipedia.

Problem
Street names in foreign cities, even your own city, sound long complicated. Statues show people you don't know.

Answer
Snap a few street names and statues, including the plaques underneath, and you'll get an idea of local heroes, or foreign ones.

British History, George V, WWI and WWII
For years I drove along George V Avenue from Hatch End to Harrow. I used to muddle up George V and George VI. Then I realised that the road name probably dated back to the first word war. I linked the alliterative initials of the name fifth and first, and sixth and second. Now I instantly know that anything about George V is commemorating the First World War. 1914-18 centenary commemorations have produced new museums and information in Europe during 2014-18. London is full of statues of kings and queens and famous figures.

Belgium
WWI is commemorated at the Menin Gate in Belgium and numerous battlefield tours and museums.

Australia
In London I saw a statue of Monash. Who? WWI commander. Over in Australia I followed up, seeking out his statues in Melbourne.

Statues which you pass every day on your way to your home or hotel are a constant reminder of any history you have learned, helping anchor it in your brain. That was the purpose of naming a street after somebody famous or putting up their statue.

That's why I love visiting homes of famous people. So much easier to recall the author of a book, and which books they wrote, and where they lived, after you have visited their house.

American Presidents and Elvis
In Washington DC you see the statues of American presidents such as the Lincoln memorial. You can visit their homes. The theatre where Lincoln was shot is forever ingrained in my memory. So is the museum in Dallas, reminding of the shooting of JFK. On a lighter note, the Elvis museums, souvenirs of Elvis everywhere.

Poe in America
I remember Edgar Allen Poe's house in America taught me his poems, such as the raven. We heard about, his short stories, and about his dying cousin who he married.

Bialik in Tel Aviv
Bialik's home in Tel Aviv taught me that he was the man who promoted the idea of Hebrew being revived as the national language, instead of Yiddish. A pity. Yiddish sound so much better! Which words do we get from Hebrew? Only cherubim, which is only useful when looking at art, such as paintings on church ceilings. We use much more Yiddish, keep shtum (quiet), and what a chutzpah! In English we would say what a cheek!

Shakespeare bust outside Guildhall. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Shakespeare in London and Stratford
England's much-visited homes include Shakespeare's house in Statford upon Avon. More recently I saw his bust and that of architect Sir Christopher Wren outside Guildhall in London.

The Brontes In Yorkshire
The Brontes' home is in Haworth, Yorkshire, England. I realised how rich we are, in the 20th and 21st centuries after I saw the museum's display of the young woman's dress, one of only three she possessed, her weekday dress, her Sunday dress, and her best dress for weddings and funerals.

Wales and Dylan
In Wales, I went to Dylan Thomas's boathouse. I learned about how he wrote Under Milk Wood. In Fishguard I saw where they filmed Under Milk Wood and Moby Dick scenes.

Robert Burns portrait. Public Domain. From Wikipedia.

Scotland and Burns
In Scotland, Edinburgh has plaques on the ground recalling famous Scottish authors such as Sir Walter Scott. For the sake of Auld Lang Syne I must visit Ayr which has Robbie Burns' house.

Chaplin in Switzerland
In Switzerland I photographed a statue of Charlie Chaplin. Before that I had never known or never noticed where he lived and died.

Italy - Verona, Puccini and Assissi
In Italy I visited the house of Puccini. And Verona - see Juliet's balcony. Remember another Shakespeare play, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Next visit on my wishlist is Assissi, birthplace and burial place of Francis of Assissi.

If you have a particular interest, you can seek out statues of famous people connected with your interest. For example, history, WWI, WWII, literature, music.

Cuban Hero, Jose Marti
Back to America - a statue of Cuban hero, Jose Marti, is in Central Park, USA. A replica has been erected in Havana in January 2018. It is an equestrian statue (a person on horseback). Somebody new to notice and research.

Looking in Wikipedia I am astonished at the numbers of statues and monuments to him worldwide. His statues are in Cuba, of course, but also in: New York, The USA; Sofia, Bulgaria; Delhi, India, and Rome, Italy.

Jose was a fervent supporter of Cuban independence from Spain. He rode a white horse which made him an easy target and died in battle. In addiiton to the equestrian statue in New York, a bust of him bears one of his qutotations, translated as the fatherland is an altar, not a stepping stone. Interestingly, the word translated as stepping stone is pedestal. Ped - Latin for foot. As the popular saying goes, learn something every day.

Useful websites
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5322413/Havana-unveils-NY-equestrian-statue-Cuban-independence-hero-Marti.html
http://visitusa.org.uk
http://visitbritain.com
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/cuba

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Music Museums & Statues by Country A-Z

An A-Z of Musicians' statues, monuments and museums, by country, so you can see what's in the country you are staying in or visiting.

AUSTRALIA
Giant guitar statue outside museum of Australia's country music singer.

Kylie Minogue statue

AUSTRIA
Vienna
You can buy Mozart chocolates with his picture.
Statue/monument of Mozart on grave in cemetery. (I went there a while back and wrote an article on Vienna based on the theme of music.)

CUBA
John Lennon statue in Havana


EUROPE
Stradivarius statue

GERMANY
Musicians of Bremen
Mendelssohn's Grave

Bach

Beethoven

POLAND
Chopin Museum, Warsaw
Chopin statue, Warsaw
Statue of musician and piano Lodz





SWITZERLAND

UK

UK
London
Handel's Organ in St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch Lane, Edgware

V and A

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music/inspiring-composer-quotes/joseph-haydn/

Amy Winehouse statue, Camden

Freddie Mercury, Dominion theatre, London

www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/

Greater London 020 8560 8108

Musical Museum | Home

www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/

Coventry Museum

Liverpool
Monument to John Lennon




USA

Elvis Presley

Home of singer of He'll have to go

Opryland, Nashville, TN

Willie Nelson, Country Music singer, statue, Austin, Texas

John Lennon statue






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