Casa Particular Ivan Rodriguez
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Eggs, muscles, and soccer
... back and pride, and when a person is proud AND humble, that to me creates the most precious kind of intangible beauty ever.
So I spent hours capturing beauty with my camera, and other interesting things to be found in this strange place with its mysterious ways… In the afternoon I treated myself and Sanlly to some chocolate covered ice-cream as I visited him at his stand on Paseo Prado.
In the evening we shared a meal at a restaurant near the old cathedral ...
The Time of My Life
... and wisdom. Two or three mojitos later and we each had one. We were told that whenever we saw others wearing the same eleka, we found our hermanos, our brothers.
David: We met this Cuban-born American whose father was an ambassador, on my birthday. David talked like a boozy, New Orleans jazz musician and came to our party at Casa Alina's. He saw our elekes and drunkenly asked, "So, you want to know ...
Standing In the Visa Line next to Russians in Cuba
... peso, for all tourists which is one to one... wait, what? One to one?! Riiiight. So on all parts touristy, you have regular prices, $2-4 for a drink, $4+ to eat, $25 for an airport taxi (dang!). Go a couple blocks over and you can eat for 30 cents, take a 1957 chevy or Bel Air for 10 cents to the national monuments... that's more like it. Bel Airs, 1950's Dodges, Chryslers, Chevy Imapalas, Ford Fairlanes, anything you can imagine and in any color, are ...
SLOW INTERNET IN CUBA
So... Slow it might be but we're getting some entries into the blog. Unfortunately as we leave Havana, so we leave easy internet access.
Watch this space! We'll update as and if we can our adventures in Cuba. Which is a really cool place.
More later,
JJ n Lx
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Viva Cuba Libre!
... Reina, several hours boat ride south off the Southern Coast of Cuba. This massive archipelago is made up of hundreds of tiny coral islands, mostly covered by mangrove forests. I had made arrangements on-line for this expedition before I arrived in Cuba through an Italian tour company as I had read that it was a very special place and well worth the splurge. And indeed it was.
Jardines De La Reina has been a protected bio-reserve for several ...
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