Victoria Havana

12 October 2008 - Sunday<br><br>Arriving in Havana, we were offered the Viazul taxi to take us to Havana for CUC2 each. Finally someone not tryin to rip us off. <br><br>After dropping our bags off with Mercedes we decided to stroll down Obispo in search of dinner. We found so much of Havana that we'd previously missed. This included La Bodeguita del Medio, made famous by Ernst Hemmingway's signature on the wall and his statement "Mi Mogito en La Bodeguita &amp; mi ...

... Clinton, grace auquel qques Cubains ont pu avoir les papiers pour aller aux US, bloqué par WLMADLH -W. Le Meilleur Ami De L'Homme-), je vois pas pourquoi la femme devrait rester a la maison pour ne pas prendre le risque qu'un truc lui arrive dans la rue et que le CDR local (Comité de Défense de la Révolution) écrive un mauvais rapport sur elle, ce qui compromettrait les chances de la famille d'émigrer. Bref, Fidel, si tu m'entends: Va te ...

... he'd slow, Katuska would yell at him in Spanish and he'd give extra effort. I was thinking, if I were him, I'd jump off and say, "Screw this, you pedal, I'm outa here, I'd rather beg for a living." But he didn't and he soon pushed a cassette tape into the player and beautiful Cuban son flowed from the speakers directly mounted above and behind our heads, powered by a 12-volt battery under my seat. Unloading my bags at my casa particular, I pay the ...

... persuaded the barman to make something special that was not on the 'carta', a tomato butty! We enjoyed both with our usual beer. Up to now the weather had been sunny every day and the temperature around 30 deg (90 F?). There was a lot of cloud around and it felt a bit cooler in the evening air. During the night I turned off the air conditioning (cooling) as It felt cooler. Wednesday 2nd We awoke to the usual noise in the street (and from inside the hotel) and a very cloudy day. We ...

... TVE (I suppose they can't afford translation and dubbing), are not as bad as I had thought. I imagined a propaganda showing the worst of capitalism, and in fact the subjects are quite informative, nothing more extreme than normal left-oriented documentaries at home. Is someone trying toprepare Cubans for the hard reality of the capitalist dream? Too early for me to understand what they get and what they miss about the outside world. They have recent american movies showing all night.

... um saquinho de batatas chips. Depois de andar mais um pouco, mais uma mulher oferece para nos deixar entrar em outro lugar "proibido". Escolados, dissemos: "No te preocupes, Grácias" e saímos. Chegamos à Casa del Café, lugar indicado pela Vilian e compramos mais 4 charutos e ganhamos 2.Vimos uma ruazinha legal e começamos a andar por ela. Sem querer chegamos na fábrica de rum Havana Club. Tinha ...

... of the necessary reasons for overthrowing of Batista&#8217;s regime: Shortages of goods, substandard housing, the island having turned into a fantasy playground for rich foreigners and the shameful necessity for women to turn to prostitution to survive. This left me terribly, horribly and utterly confused &#8211; it sounded like the Cuba of 2007 just as much as that of 1957.<br> <br>Perhaps the most entertaining era of the museum was the high-handed condemnation of the ...