Hostal Beltran de Santa Cruz
Travel Blogs from Havana
Havana Great Time in Cuba!
... As for food, we have been incredibly lucky to have a really really great chef in the house. We are fed breakfast and dinner. Breakfast is the same everyday - scrambled eggs, bread with butter and papaya jam, and coffee and juice – but dinner is a whole other story. Every dinner has about five or six different items and always ends with fresh fruit for dessert. The chef has been cooking for his whole life, and his uncle used to be the president of the ...
For the Love of Rum
... simply would not be a day in Cuba without some of the stuff. So, when in Rome...
If Che is king in Cuba, Rum is his jester - always around, donning different colors, there simply to make you happy. Doesn't matter what time of day, people are drinking it. Walking along the Malecón, the sea wall that borders Habana, you'll find packs of men sharing a bottle and naturally, offering you a pull ...
Exploring old Havana
... she's so overwhelmed she doesn't notice them. We get a lot of strange looks from the airport staff and Cubans hanging around.
Back to Havana town that afternoon we seek out a tarot reader in one of the main Plaza's [I forget the name of the Plaza]. Adelaide is her name and she is dressed in all white, she looks like a gypsy. Charlotte has to translate as the reading is in Spanish. Good job Charlotte, I ...
Back to the Big Smoke
... for grub and we made the big decision to go back to Vinales to help the sorry looking little dog pictured in our previous blog entry... Malnurished & sick she wasn't for this world long and as any of you that know Liz, there's nothing in this world that tugs on her heart strings more than an animal in need. So we spent a few days preparing for this part of the trip...
- JJ x
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Cuba
... Airport we had no troubles clearing immigration and customs and were greeted by a prearranged pickup service that drove us directly to our accommodation. For the next four nights we are staying in a lovely casa particular at the junction between the Veija and Vedado districts. Once we settled in we hit the vibrant streets of Havana where we found an electric mix of people wandering about. We were ...