Copacabana
Travel Blogs from Havana
City of Hustlers
Havana is a city of hustlers. With an average monthly salary of $20 USD Habaneros have to hustle. A walk down one of the narrow streets will find you passing stalls with fried spam sandwiches for sale, young jineteras with their much older sugar daddies, windows offering a sip of guarapa, brightly costumed "original" Habaneros charging one peso per …
We made it........
.....through Cuban customs without a passport stamp...very important(neither one of us can afford the $10,000 fine)...then, to our home for the next few days, the Copacabana. As we drove to our Hotel I think we had a lot of mixed emotions...we weren't sure what to expect....once we got to the hotel we didn't know if we wanted to grab a drink at the …
A pig in pearls visits Alice in Wonderland
... br> I suppose I am the queen with the power over my heart and my mind. The “war” I’ve mentioned often isn’t anything dramatic, it can be about something as trivial as ice-cream. The heart wants it but the brain suggests a damn carrot. I try to let them both win a fairly equal amount of battles, as if they were two stubborn little children who need some discipline! (Twiddle-e-dee and Twiddle-e-dum?)
When I first came here a year ago, it ...
Hotel Nacional de Cuba
First time in my life I have ever been to the airport to be told the flight has gone it left this morning. Well that was a battle of wills to get us on the next flight, the girl from Easy Jet let us go on to London for free and I got the Edinburgh duty manager to get on the phone ...
Ay!... lo que hay
... de luz y cortes en la barbería por 1 dólar. Hay orquidiarios y un solo diario. Hay palmas reales, hay gente haciendo palmas, hay silencio. Hay parásitos, hay mojitos, hay cosas que se pierden y cosas que se resuelven. Hay uniforme para el colegio, hay aguaceros, hay Yumas. Hay vendedores ambulantes, hay paladares y restaurantes
nacionales, hay corales, hay olas con fuerza gigante de ruido errante. Hay helado, hay ...
Location
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Free parking