In February 2017 my husband and I spent two weeks in Cuba, visiting Havana, Viñales, Trinidad, Iguana Island, and Guanayara National Park. We stayed in Casas Particulares, the Cuban equivalent of a guesthouse. Casas Particulares are privately owned and offer a chance to mix with local residents.
Havana: has a long history, surviving pirates, wars, occupation, and revolution. In the early 1800’s it flourished and became so fashionable it was known as the Paris of the Antilles. The city still lives and breathes this history, the good and the bad, creating a rich visual and energetic jumble.
We were fascinated with the life on the streets, the raw energy, the camaraderie, the music. And it’s impossible to miss, no matter the hardships, the ordinariness of it: people are people, just going about their lives and making the best they can of it in circumstances over which they have little control. They laugh, they cry, they play, they work, they get exhausted, they have fun, they fight, they love. Havana is a grand and unique city, and for all Cuba’s troubles, it is one of those great cities of the world that calls out to be seen.
Best places for Wi-Fi are the high-end hotels. If you go upstairs to the business centre in the lobby of the Iberostar they will sell you a five-hour Wi-Fi card that is actually good for over six hours, and generally the signal is pretty strong in the lobby.
We’d bought bus tickets for the journey from Havana to Viñales, but the bus broke down and never arrived. Expect this kind of thing in Cuba. Not everything will always go according to plan. Our bus tickets were refunded, and for very little more we shared a taxi for the three-hour drive with a couple we met at the bus station. The taxi was a classic car probably fifty years old. I had some reservations, but we got there with only a couple of minor breakdowns, which the driver quickly fixed. He delivered us right to the door of our casa particular. It was way more fun than the bus.
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