A Very Merry Cuban Christmas
A Cuban, Mexican, American, and Lebanese hopped in a yank-tank today and headed down to Playa de Este for a traditional Cuban Christmas; a pig roast on the beach (with rice & beans of course) and some Cristal cerveza.
Christmas Eve With Christopher Colombus
Christmas here in Cuba isn’t that big of a deal which I guess is something to give thanks for this holiday season! Everything was open and in full swing, including La Cabaña, and old apothecary, the meat market, and of course the usual crew of buskars getting their busk on.
Mas Vieja
Havana is one of those cities where you can literally just wake up one morning, pick a direction, start walking and by mid-afternoon your camera battery is dead from taking so many darn photos. A good problem to have I guess.
Time Warping In La Habana Vieja
Spent the day wandering around La Habana Vieja taking in all the sights and sounds of this city that seems to be preserved in the late 60’s. Such a trip.
Back In Havana
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a week here on the island, which means the trip is halfway over. The next half will be spent exploring all that Havana has to offer. The drive back here was quite interesting in that three-quarters of the drive was down the single freeway in the country — a freeway with a total of 3 lanes, and no divider. So you’ve got a lane for eastbound traffic, a lane for westbound traffic, and a lane in the middle for both eastbound and westbound traffic in the form of a mutual head-on passing lane. Not exactly the safest road in the world, but that’s what you get when the USSR pulls out of the project halfway through completion.
