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La Habana (or Havana to the rest of us!)

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

We didn’t have very good first impressions of La Habana as it is called in Cuba. It probably didn’t help that we arrived fairly late and felt like we were paying a lot of money for a hotel room and for a taxi to get from the airport to the hotel.  Being charged US$445 to take out CUCs 400, when a CUC is supposed to be equal to a dollar, didn’t help either – tourist tax to get money out of the hole in the wall… [read on]

Varadero

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Cuba hadn’t originally been a place we had intended to visit, but once I’d had an email from an old school, Spanish, penfriend (Amaia) to say that her and her family were moving out there for two years it seemed silly not to ‘pop’ in on our way past! [read on]