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Travel Blogs from Havana
A little art and a little marathon
... dancing beans, letterboxes that bite, flying tripods, Giant George who needs the “big door”, rainwater-tastings from spoons and sentences said extremely passionately about the flavor of a ripe tomato…
This night of laughs and silliness certainly had me all cheered up but also missing my friends…
Oh, and the marathon… I was jogging my normal route last Sunday morning, but as I turned into the Malecón ...
Havana
... hr) entledigt wurde. Wir liesen die Münze entscheiden und fuhren ohne Röbi noch am selben Tag nach Matanzas, was in der Richtung von Varadero liegt.
In Kuba kann mann sehr gut essen. Die kubanische Küche lässt sich am besten in den privaten Casas schmecken. Viel und meist sehr gut, aber nicht sehr abwechlungsreich. Hähnchen, Fisch, Meeresfrüchte wie Garnelen, Krebsfleisch oder Langusten. Als Beilage Kartoffeln, fritierte Bananen, Jucca, Malanga, Reis mit Bohnen ...
Returning the salt to the earth
... skin, literally soaking up the water and the salt. I am certain that I will soon be returning the two substances to the earth as I shed tears laden with sorrow from missing Havana and all that it has given me…
I feel a strange connection with this place and I am not sure why. It is a very beautiful and friendly place in many ways, full of life and with such a hot pulse. But I feel a connection that is almost personal and human. I feel we have a ...
Ten days in Cuba, February, 2012
... to see, districts called Vedado and Miramar. These are full with art deco buildings
Street in Trinidad, Cuba. Regrettably unless they belong to an embassy or some other institution they are falling apart. The bus goes by the huge city cemetery with acres of white marble tombstones, before reaching Miramar that is a leafy suburb and the favourite place of embassies and (I ...
Viva Cuba Libre!
... in El Parte Oriente... I understood what the Santiagueros meant.
Almost immediately after I left Santiago I knew I wanted to return to El Parte Oriente. The friends I made there, the music, the other places on the eastern side of the island that I heard so much about but didn´t have time to visit... the whole thing really, I just wanted more of it. But I had to go all the way back to Havana first to extend my tourist visa and to ...