Casa Suzana Havana

1060 Calle 26, Nuevo Vedado Havana, 115 04, Cuba

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Cuban Adventures

A travel blog entry by ashleythomas

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... come up and start a conversation, telling me about their life before asking me for money. It’s frustrating, it’s puzzling and there is not a moment of peace. Pleas of ‘estoy bien’ (I am okay) are ignored, and walking away is the only – brief – solution. And I feel horrible. I feel disheartened and isolated and nasty that I’m walking away from people trying to talk to me. When men call out as I pass I walk on by and feel horrible but ...

Bright lights of the city

A travel blog entry by dosweeks

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... it took 45 minutes of waiting outside to get to head up into the restaurant. The food was good but the portions were ridiculously ENORMOUS. I ordered shrimp which was so much would have fed family of four without a problem – and it cost 8 CUC! Doggy bags are given so we packaged up the leftovers and headed back to the hotel to digest. We decided to walk back along El Malecon (along the shore) as it was lovely out and we had to work off some ...

La Isla Bonita

A travel blog entry by funkymonk

... is in place - that means the Castro brothers have to be gone and Marxist socialism has to be gone with them. Personally, I think it's disgusting that he dare dictate what a future president can or can't do, especially given the eight years of hideous misgovernance that the world had to put up with under his administration. If the above is true... man, what a ********. [note: I welcome anyone to confirm or clarify that rumour for me]

After all these years (about 50) of ...

Cuba is a wonderland

A travel blog entry by c.i.222

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... palace before the revolution. The museum's exhibits are devoted to the revolutionary war of the 50's and the country's post-1959 period. Some parts are devoted to pre-revolutionary period including the War of Independence against Spain. In a fenced area outside of the main building are some of the vehicles and armaments used during the revolutionary war and the ...

More airports

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

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... city seems to have escaped the depradations of the 1960s and 1970s that have damaged so many places and the presence of ancient American cars everywhere adds to the feeling that you have stepped into another time. The cars, incidentally, mainly run on tractor engines and one person we spoke to suggested that most of them are actually made up of bits from dozens of cannibalised vehicles.

We managed two new birds during ...