Casa De Sergio And Miriam Havana

... on ropes all around this quartert?) we arrived at the Casa Natal de José Marti which was filled with a group of Cuban Students... we decided to return some other day to check out the interior. Next was the classic: The capitolio - but first: hustlers... they wanted to show us some nice party (going on in the Buena Vista Social Club!) just around the corner. We knew that the club was located around 10 km away from Downtown Havana until it closed somewhere in the mid ...

... with a proper meal at a proper Chinese restaurant, where we enjoyed our first bit of red meat in nine days. Slaughtering cows is actually illegal in Cuba as the government uses them for state-run restaurants and rations.















And so here we are, sitting in the smoke-filled Havana Airport, drinking rum with all the other passengers trying to keep warm from the air ...

... How about Uruguayan steak for $6? I don't remember it that cheap in Uruguay, not that I spent any time looking. Harder to find is good espresso, notwithstanding all the little jiggers of café Cubano being sold on the streets, but the street stuff is sweeter and not fresh pressed, though still not bad for a nickel a swallow. I've found it as cheap as a penny. I also found a couple places with good espresso and nothing illustrates the ...

... to Mexico with us. (We later had the same problem in Mexico, and since Clare was bound for the USA, where the possession of anything Cuban is a crime, the whole lot eventually made it to Australia as Tony's cabin baggage.) Fortunately our forced tour of Havana revealed many interesting sights, and included a visit to John Lennon Park and a ride home in a Cococab. In the evening we found a bar ...

... pebbles on a driveway. Probably the most memorable thing from my visit to Cuba (apart from losing my credit cards and getting food poisoning) was the thrill of staying in a Casa Particular: a house that rents out rooms for tourists. Staying here you see real Cuban life come and go. Small children run through the drawing room wielding balloons before playing baseball in the streets with a pebble. This is interesting. Baseball is America's National ...

... in my travel blog and I did!!!!!!! Good job, great site , wish you the best and I will recommed it to everyone. Staying in Casa Mirta was the best choice ever made. Mirta takes care of you the way a mother would and Jorge, her husband is incredibly helpful. We even went with them to a couple of tours to Varadero and Pinar del Rio, but thats another part of this blog.

... pizza and digestible chicken forelegs, and if you could get hold of the local currency, we could buy them for the price of a few penny chews. There were restaurants in the less run-down tourist end of Havana but these accepted convertible pesos that effectively convert prices to levels you'd rather not pay in Latin America. Furthermore, a warning that storms could interrupt food supplies for days suggested we should plan and eat ahead. Waiting for the bus to Santa Clara ...

... We wasted no time in heading down to the beach and we both awwed at the white sand and gorgeous shades of blue down there. It was great to have someone to watch the gear while the other was in the ocean!! Chilled on the beach a bit then went to get something to eat in the main st. This is the Cuban part of the the Playas del Este so there were lots of crumbling buildings, huge holes in the pavement (some 1.5 m deep!) an abandoned ...

... an impressive place. After enrolling for Spanish classes, I arrived enthusiastic for my first day of class in Espaņol Nivel 3 (advanced). Being the rebel that I am ( ;-) ), I decided that they werenīt for me and dropped out of my classes (luckly I hadnīt paid yet). I think its better suited for teaching the basics, and the syllabus for a month wasnīt challenging enough. Well, it wasnīt going to prepare me enough for my work in Venezuela. Ania, really generously, offered to ...

... aren't any hostels in cuba. you stay in a hotel or a casa particular - basically where you rent a room in a cuban persons home. great to get 'immersed in the culture' but you dont really meet anybody! 5) due to the lack of imports the food is fairly bobbins! everything is either fried, a pizza or an ice cream! (niņo you'd love it! and fags are 35p a pack!) the bread is bright, and i mean luminous yellow! on a plus side its cheap if you eat at pesos stalls - you ...