Casa 1932
Travel Blogs from Havana
Eastward Travels
... night we stayed in Camagüey, which was totally dead due to the Cyclone warning, but Glenn and I – Glenn is the other UNCA student in my group who is a drummer – got to play a song with the Cuban-jazz band that was playing in the hotel. We hung out with the guys after the show, and I talked to them about playing at LEAF, the festival that’s held right near Asheville twice a year. We exchanged contacts and said we’ll keep in touch ...
Street Passion aka Feliz Cumpleaños
... s just a huge club for mostly-naked women and Latin men. There was a line of prostitutes at the bar.
After some time on the dance floor, we decided to call it a night. Jumped in a cab and when I mentioned we were hungry, our driver turned us around and took us for pizza in Habana's tiny Chinatown. We sat outside and shoveled the equivalent of a 7-11 microwave pizza down and made more friends. A set of men came in and after a ...
Kuba 09.04. - 23.04.
... mal einen Anstrich (oder ein bisschen mehr) benötigten und alle Gebäude so aussehen, gibt die Stadt ein wundervolles Bild ab. Man taucht in eine andere (alte) Welt wenn man die Gassen und Straßen entlang geht. Lediglich die "Neubauten", auch Revolutionsbauten genannt aus den 60er verunglimpfen das Bild, diese gibt es jedoch zum Glück nicht im Zentrum. Nach einem guten Abendessen in der Stadt erwartet und eine kleine Überraschung. Es brennt! Bei dem obligatorischen Blick aus ...
Viva Cuba Libre!
... parallel economies. The ¨peso convertible¨ and the ¨peso national¨. The convertible peso is worth 25x the national peso and is the currency for tourism, foreign exchange, and for purchasing any kind of luxury or consumer good. I carried both currencies, and occasionally I had the opportunity to purchase goods and services with the national peso. On these occasions I paid approximately 40 cents for taxi (collectivo) rides, 15 to 50 cents for pizza ...
Año nuevo... Raro?
Año nuevo… Raro?
A pocas horas de pasar al 2012, año que me hace acordar muchísimo al 2000 por las profecías de las que se empiezan a hablar, y que después nos volvemos a dar cuenta de que no tenemos idea de nada… de nada!, me pongo a pensar que raro que es todo esto de contar los años, los meses, días, horas, minutos, segundos, tiempo…
Creo, por un lado, que esta bueno. Nos seria muy difícil sin tiempo ...
Location
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Room service