Cubanacan Boutique Chateau Mi Havana

... this time it was a topless bus, and we did two laps of the city !!!<br><br>We still had two more places to visit, but we wanted to get a shot with Granma again. As she has her photo in the book, she makes a killing !!! But the better photo to take was the man who is on the front cover of the Lonely Planet. We took a load of photos and gave him some money. Realistically, these two make a killing !!!<br><br>Eventually, we arrived at ...

... noen kvartaler bortenfor hostellet, med live cubansk salsamusikk. Der var det et utrolig sjont gammelt par, sikkert naermere 80, som danset salsa :) Det gikk ikke saa fort, og motorikken var kanskje litt skranglete, men det er det sjonneste jeg har sett! Det SKAL vaere meg om 50 aar! I kveld skal vi paa konsert med Buena Vista Social Club :) Utrolig kult! Sok det opp hvis dere ikke har hort om de! Det er en gjeng gatemusikere som ...

... de vele oldtimers en oude lada's die in grote getalen heen en weer rijden (al dan niet als taxi) en de grotendeels vervallen panden langs de Malecon. Via het Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta doorgelopen naar Havana Vieja (het oude gedeelte). Hier zijn de panden wel prachtig gerenoveerd en veel van deze panden worden dan ook gebruikt als hotel. In het midden ligt het Parque Central dat een ...

... as the shuttle bus passes them. I didn't waste time inside the hotel room, I went out to start exploring Havana. Cafe Havana is just a stone throw away, there you would see Tropicana show. It is quite safe to walk around, as there are cops everywhere. If you want to go further around, there are these yellow coconut shaped tricycle they call Cocotaxi or these vintage vehicles driven by beautiful Cuban women. If you're ...

... than trying to come to the aid of every people's movement in the world engaged against imperialism. They might not have wound up Uncle Sam so much, for a start. Come to think of it, the Cuban government should have asked the accountants before they nationalised every pie that the podgy US fingers were inserted into. I'm sure ...

... that total cost was $12 CUC, not pesos. Not wanting to cause a scene, I handed over $12 for a small bunch of flowers and chalked it up to a life moment, knowing she would benefit from the $12 more than I would. Later we visited a nearby park dedicated to John Lennon. There is a statue of him sitting on a park bench to pose beside. There now is a custodian guarding it because John's glasses keep disappearing? Go figure? Later, after we returned ...

... El Fin de Ano'. There was another tour in the same area as 'Las Terrazas' in the west, one going to the beach at 'Varadero', which is the major, purpose built, tourist complex in the north and a crocodile farm and ranch visit. We declined these, as I really wanted to see more of Cuba itself, but this was getting more and more difficult to achieve. As we left we checked our change and found it was short! We were near the seafront and visited a market next to the old fortresses. It was ...

... I really recommend this Museum and from what I have seen, Cuban modern art. Contemporary art on display was surprisingly daring at times (ex: there was an ideology detector, like needle gauge, ranging: "Without problem" - "Problematic" - "Counter-revolutionary (Unconsciously)" - "Counter-revolutionary(Consciously)" - "Enemy of the revolution"), but mostly, throughout the displays it could be seen that the artists had to have produced a ...

... So after all that excitement, we tried to find something to eat, really only to be thwarted again, as most that is on offer is from roadside stalls selling buns with ham and cheese, or schnitzel-type meat. We did manage to find an ice-cream shop and had a soft-serve (wish us luck, but it was nice!!!) We then headed off on a forty minute walk along Simon Bolivar and Salvadore Allende Avenue to find the Museo de Postal (complete with Philatelic shop for stamp collectors ...

... camellos, long truck-trailers shaped with a camel hump that operated throughout Havana as public buses. <br> <br>Propaganda posters were placed at regular intervals exalting Fidel Castro, the Communist revolution and Cuba&#8217;s close relationship with Venezuela, with taglines like &#8216;¡Vamos Bien!&#8217; (&#8216;Going Well!&#8217;). Groups of people congregated around make-shift bus-stops and outside small takeaway bars with barred windows, the buildings of which and ...