Victoria Havana

Allo groupe!

On est revenu de Cuba, bien content de notre voyage!

Je vous propose un triptyque de photos, soit notre voyage en trois épisodes photographiques. Peu à dire, il me semble, mais Richard saura vous raconter plus tard aussi, cette semaine.

Aujourd'hui: Cuba et ses chars des années 50 (un classique!). Combien de ces automobiles saurez-vous identifier? Leur année aussi?

À plus!

Marc

... the whole distance back to old Havana, we accepted. About two blocks down, our little taxi driver was stopped by a policeman and asked to present papers (or at least this is our version of the story). Since he was not regulated or legally registered with some or other tourist company (who would then obviously have to pay hefty taxes to the government), he was not legally allowed to give us a ride. Though we didn't fully understand the Spanish that was flying around ...

... Habana ( Cuban spelling and pronunciation) was going to a baseball game between Habana and Guantanamo. It cost us one national peso to get in (about 5c) and it was pretty cool, standing for the Cuban national anthem with the whole crowd, and of course I´d never seen a live baseball game before. Habana , at least the historic centre, is so old, run down and dirty. Most of the buildings look like they haven´t seen a paint brush in 50 years. However ...

... made it that far. So we hung out the next few days together. Spent the night at casa de la musica, i guess it's the main bar in town, drinking rum and salsa-ing (well trying to). Day5...Decided to rent bicycles and cycle out to the beach, Playa Ancon. The aussie girls told me it'd take 30min. Well it took us a lot longer. God it was painful. My ass was killing me for days after. It was way too high for me. The beach was worth the pain (tho i would've prob been ...

... searching for internet places for an hour! Some where closed, other state run places said they never had it so I ended up at the Capitolio again but on a much newer computer and there where less people there so things worked pretty well (if a bit slowly...) Spent a couple hours there and then did some photos around the area but I´d really seen all I needed to in Havana and the beggers where really ...

... Spanish classes.... Quickly, I figured out that everything runs by rules, forms, procedures, bureaucracy. Everything from enrolling for university to seeing Ania run her business renting rooms in her house. She has to pay a high monthly tax every for her license which wipes out over half her earnings, regardless of whether she has tourists or not. Inspectors can check up on her at any time, and she has the risk of being fined from having unregistered visitors around and ...

... home! Friday * trotted down the market for some more bananas and a coupla mangos. had a delicous pan con tortilla - fried egg sandwhich for breakfast (if theres one thing cubans do well its fry ****!) * wanted to go down to mariano for the day and take a picture of club tropicana but despite much sweaty milling about couldnt find the bus stop * eventually found a bus stop so plonked myself down and decided to just go whereva this bus went! * the ...