Why Nickipedia?

I'm back to blogging! And with a new name.

I've been blogging on and off since 2009, and what a ride it's been. My earliest experiences include posting a day before the world's media had access to exclusive photos of a frail Fidel Castro visiting a science institute in Havana where a friend of a friend worked, and going viral with background pieces about the wives (and mistresses) of a number of world leaders (Desperate Dictator Housewives) and families (Keeping up with the ...). I'll be sure to repost some of my previous posts here.

Recently I've been writing more on LinkedIn (link here) so if you're aware of my posts there, then you've already got a taste of what to expect here.

So why 'Nickipedia'?

Well, I have my travel partners Dina Newman and Garth Cartwright to thank for this. Whenever we go travelling together (to places such as Georgia, Moldova and Uzbekistan), I give them a non-stop commentary of facts, anecdotes and info that rival that online encyclopedia that you no doubt already know of. My other nick name is 'Nick FM' in that I can talk and talk for ages, but don't think you can turn this live radio station in stereo off (!). As can be seen in the photo of me in Transnistria (Pridnestrovie), there actually is a Nik FM ("hotter radio" as the billboard claims), though I'm more of a Cuban Radio Reloj ("Radio Clock").

What is Radio Reloj, you might ask? 

It's an extraordinary radio station and very much a relic from the past – a radio concept that used to be widespread throughout Latin America but now only going strong in Cuba. Incepted in 1947, basically its programming consists of one-minute features of news and interesting facts read by two presenters, just that every minute is announced. It's most distinctive feature is the sound of a ticking clock in the background. Listening to it is interesting when the reader needs to speed up to get the feature in before the minute ends or there's just the sound of the ticking clock as the feature finished early.

You can have a listen to RadioReloj here https://www.radioreloj.cu/multimedia/radio-reloj-audio-en-vivo/

Stay tuned for more...

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