Central Havana

Havana , Cuba
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    Attraction Type:

    Neighborhood

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    That's Habana With A 'b'.

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    Cuba was a bit of a mystery to us... We arrived on bright sunny day with expectations of Salsa but at a bit of a loss as to what the next 4 weeks might bring.

    Our Casa Particular (B&B to us UK folkes) was right in Centro Habana. Maura our landlady had a lovely apartment which launched us into Cuban life.

    We were in Cuba for …

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    Adrift

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    ... with a young driver who blasts Ebe Manuel out the jacked sound system as we jockey through the dirty, sun-blackened streets of central Havana. Conversation is easy. He honks at a pretty girl -- honks a bunch, actually -- and she gives him a delightfully ...

  • 2

    Hemingway's Cuba

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    ... pennies rub elbows with tourists who paid $25, means the singing isn't just up on stage, but all around us. Afterwards, Rosemary treats me to a cocktail on the top of the Parque Central hotel. We toast to the success of the trip and to more in the ...

  • 3

    Full Friday, afternoon

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    ... deco magnificence of the Bacardi building, through the dilapidated, begging-for-a-facelift  Manzana de Gomez shopping arcade, to Parque Central, where we dodge a local hustler (he's seen us enough times to call out familiarly) and make tracks to the ...

  • 4

    Vedado

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    ... 40s, not the previous centuries. Many streets have trees. At night, the sounds could be from any city. The musical cacophony of central Havana has been replaced by the hum of air conditioners. Out for ice cream later at Bim Bom, we watch six children ...

  • 5

    Tour guides in Havana

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    ... in Havana. This morning they get the Coles Notes version of our first week: a stroll down the Prado, a croissant in Parque Central, and the jostled walk along Obispo's pedestrian mall into Habana Vieja. After a fine set of Middle Eastern platters at Al ...

  • 6

    Full Friday, morning

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    ... at the Camera Oscura. As lovely as this part of town is, it's a little thin on eateries. We elect to head back to central Havana for lunch. Our ride in a minibus takes us around the waterfront of Habana Vieja, in front of the central train station and ...

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    Winding down

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    ... various air-conditioned lobbies and stores, working away from the Museo del Chocolate along Amargua and back up towards Parque Central. Julie manages to breastfeed in two lovely lobbies: the Hotel Ambos Mundos and the Hotel Raquel. Tourists suturate ...

  • 8

    For the record

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    ... a record store just seems to be cheating in some way. I get his card and confirm his hours before setting off through central Havana towards the hotel. The streets here are a bit rougher than even Consulado, our first address in Havana, and there ...

  • 9

    Socialist Cuba on a communist budget

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    ... Part 1 La Habana, Cuba - Finally, after all the preparation, planning and apprehension, suddenly there I was in lively central Havana. I couldn't believe my eyes. And they probably had never been open wider. Throughout all the years dreaming of ...

  • 10

    Socialist Cuba on a communist budget part 2

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    ... from the area so I wouldn't have to worry about them. Not that I would have had to. I felt safer in the streets of central Havana than I felt most anywhere in the US. Guns and violence against tourists are unheard of. I would be silly not to fall asleep ...