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Hemingway’s Havana Haunts
A pub crawl with hundreds of strangers is a thing in Old Havana. There is the bar (Floridita) where Papa drank his favorite daiquiri. Then there is the Bodeguita del Medio where he imbibed on mojitos. I opted not to get … Continue reading
Unplugged in Cuba
Within seconds of the airplane’s wheels touching ground in Atlanta on my return from Havana, a woman behind me screeched “OMG I have 148 voicemails!” Almost everyone in the vicinity, also on their phones for the first time in days, … Continue reading
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Tagged CUC, Havana, no computers, no phones, no TV, ration cards, subsidies, UNESCO
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