Vedado Havana

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... No problem. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. They drink a lot, too, mostly rum, available almost any time almost any place. The analogy to the Russian's vodka is too obvious to ignore. My most communistic friends back home are usually the most pharmaceutically experimental also. Religion's far from perfect but it's better than all that I reckon. The three most common items at any street stall are: cigarettes, rum, and condoms, in no certain order, whatever ...

... to stop us to talk to us... WHY?

When we finally found the place to buy our tickets we spent some time eating lunch at one of the kiosks. In Cuba we found our 'take away' food to have the common theme of either ham or cheese, or ham AND cheese... And so we had a ham and cheese pizza.

On our way back from having bought the tickets for our Viazul bus to Trinidad, we were approached by a bicycle taxi. Thinking it would be a good idea, and help us avoid ...

... still have ration books, a remainder from the Special Period after the fall of the Soviet Union, when Cuba lost 80% of its export market. There are stories of eating fried grapefruit skins for tea and cooking rice with 4 times the required amount of water. There are hundreds of bicitaxis around the city, and heaps of coco-mobiles: tiny open-air three-wheel taxis that look like giant motor bike helmets. We loved riding around in them. The highlight ...

... i felt i could enjoy the rest of the trip. There's a china town in havana, tho no asians to be seem. I did get a little less china comments in the area.... a bit of a rest. Day4....Trinidad! Love trinidad, at the casa there were 2 other girls from Sydney! We ate at the casa, it was so good vegetable soup and then lobster! mmmm Went out for a walk in the town centre and we run into Laurent and Gisela! They had left a day before us for Santiago de cuba, but ...

... to get back to Havana too! We got rooms at the Lido again and this time I had a balcony so I was quite happy (still only cold water and a trickle for a shower though!) Headed out with M to change money and get some real internet access (being without for the last few days) and although the money changing was easy, the state owned internet place didn´t have more than one access card left for purchase so I was ...

... have to be pretty wary of any Cuban who comes up to talk to you because chances are they are only interested in your money. - The filthy beach at Playas Estes. It was so disgusting. Also, having Greg's $1500 camera stolen from right under our noses at said beach and having to spend 7 hours dealing with the cops, filling in millions of forms (by hand- no computer or photocopier here) just to get a report for our insurance.

... cocktail time so went to hotel florida and had a ron something or other! (very strong!) * grabbed a 5peso pizza from my fave street vendor. the cocktail had knocked me for 6 so went home and had a nap! * trotted back out for evening cocktails and had a mojito in a totally empty bar! then went to les lluvies oros for a delicious ron collins. they had wicked band and i amused myself my blowing smoke at a german bloke at the next table * wobbled my ...