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Monday 27th October Playa Giron - Caleta Buena Decide to spend the day at Caleta Buena, a coral cove eight kms away, which is owned by the Hotel. We can have our prepaid meals there, and just pay for the transport and use of the beach. Taken in bus with group of other tourists. Looks lovely when we arrive. It's a beautiful sunny day, and the bay …
CUBA! - Life In The Fifties.
Havana, Cuba - decrepit, time-warped, yet astonishingly beautiful!
Our flight was delayed which meant we arrived in Havana late at night. Our first priority was to get money as the Cuban monetary system had only just changed over to a "convertible peso" and this is now the only currency for non Cubans to use and it is not available …
Havana Day 4
Up 830 and had the usaul cheese and cracke rbreakfast. Packed our bags slowly for the return to Havana. Left 1130. Took 20 minutes to walk to where we had to catch the bus and this time it wasn´t even a bus, it was a truck with the bus route number on it!! Interesting change and it was actually more comforta ble than the bus as I wasn´t nursing my …
Old sins cast long shadows
... times before the music started playing.
Soldiers marched their comical John Cleese-style march with rigid high kicks, and again I felt like an alien looking with an outsider’s eyes at our weird world…
(I don’t want to even THINK about soon returning to Stockholm looking with those same inquisitive eyes at the incomprehensible behavior of hysterical Christmas consumerism casting its evil spell over people – generating employment on a huge ...
Back to the myth
... money, then book my flight out of Cuba to Canada and then go on the internet to notify some people in Canada when I will come. To do all this, I need money. I check my credit card, and oooo no, it is a Mastercard. Well, not that bad, it should work anyway, but I have to go to a bank. I am recommend to go to the Hotel Nacional, where they have a Cadeca (money exchange house) and internet. In addition, the Air Canada office is just next to it. Perfect, let's go.
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