Last week I was back from a eleven days trip to Cuba. We were a group of nine and seemingly very satisfied one. We spent five days in Havanna, and visited also Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Santa Clra and Pinar del Rio, which was the only new place for me. As always Cuba was very friendly, and the drinks good in quantity and quality but cheap. Weather was mostly perfect but of course on that day we supposed to relax on the beach, the sky turned its back to us. We had to watch a heavy tropical rain for hours from the "all-included" hotel bar and restaurant, sipping masswise local delicious drinks.
We had lot of fun, even some very pleasant "cubanas profesionales" tried to seduce me during our stay in Havanna, but I kept my trousers tightly on me.
Havanna had changed a lot since my last trip, four years ago. The old part of the city had been almost completely restored or renovated. The city also was filled with European, Canadian and South American tourists especially from Venezuela.
For me was new that you could follow with Spanish subtitels CNN, BBC and Deutsche Welle among other TV stations, not just in your hotel room but in the bars too.
The rural countryside was like it always has been beautiful but poor.
And the music is there, always and everywhere. We had luck one evening to get a table in a restaurant, where world famous "La Buena Vista Social Club" was performing for two hours. Of course we did visit places which Ernest Hemingway made popular "Floridita" bar and "Ambos Mundos" Hotel, even staying there for one night. As before also now many people called me Papa, his nickname, and some asked if I would be related to Hemingway due very similar looks.
I love Cuba, and I do not think it was my last visit there.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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