Hotel Vedado
Travel Blogs from Havana
Cuba
5 days in Cuba!! And what a fantastic 5 days we had. Arriving late in the afternoon after flying Cubana Air... And we thought Gauruder was hard work, this was something else. A 1950`s aircraft from Russia to be exact, as we boarded the plane (from the runway as the door was too small to connect up to the walkways) the plane was full of condensation …
Thoughts and a tour of Havana
First impressions of Havana and Cuba itself - it felt pretty wrong to be here to be honest. I've travelled to a lot of countries... and witnessed a lot of third world poorness but when we arrived in Cuba I had to say to Dani that this was the first country to properly rattle me. The place is the hub of hypocracy itself. The hotel we were staying in …
Hablando espanol
We're studying espanol now at the home of the dos profesores who have a dog just like our ridiculous daschund Spencer (Havana is full of daschunds)..... Our teachers lived in Russia for many years and they love winter??
We are in Vedado, a suburb of Havana, full of amazing old huge colonial homes, many being restored, many not at all...
Old sins cast long shadows
... or some guy slumped on a step under a poster of Che holding a bottle of rum in his worn and wrinkly tanned hand…
It is never dull here really, there is an incessant stream of curious and peculiar moments. If my life was a computer game (the ones we had back in the 80’s) I feel at the moment that Stockholm would be like level one – a little boring and mundane and you just want to get through it. Havana would be like level 13 – full of things to watch out for, ...