Cuba was intense for its busyness, its heat, its lack of snack food, its curious, crumbling infrastructure, its over abundance of rum (this coming from a rum-lover!), and its overall feeling of resilient happiness. We stayed in La Habana for a week with just a day-trip to Viñales and we came away with a lot of photographs. Voila, our first few days in Havana:
The parrot of the house. Cubans love their dogs and their birds!
Bedroom selfie
The TV worked! Black & white only
Gates of Chinatown; there wasn’t much Asian in Chinatown, but we were told the best Italian food could be found here.
Famous Hemingway haunt, La Floridita
Every morning we had breakfast at our Casa Particular, and every day it was exactly the same: a pitcher of coffee, a bowl of sliced fresh fruit, one scrambled egg, one hot dog with ketchup and yellow mustard, two thin slices of cheese, two buns, a sliver of butter, and a pitcher of fresh juice. We intended to have breakfast at the house just that first day, but we quickly realized how difficult it was to find food, and happily ordered a 5 CUC ($5) breakfast every day of our one week stay.
The view from our rooftop
Selfie with the Malecón, the highway along the sea
The streets of La Habana are busy
Walking on the Malecón
Gran Teatro de La Habana
Museo de la Revolución; the tank at the bottom right is the SAU-100 tank used by Castro during the 1961 battle of the Bay of Pigs.
Street soccer
Our casita, well-painted
The view from our rooftop, nighttime
We saw several Obama doppelgangers
Monumento a José Martí
This was taken during of a hop-on-hop-off bus tour, and this was pointed out as the largest supermarket in Havana. As travelers who found food and water scarce, this proved to be indeed a point of interest for Julien and me.
La Casa de la Artesanía
Two men at work
Open doors provided the opportunity to peer into a labyrinth of halls and stairways, La Habana’s homes the result of construction upon construction.
Julien and flamenco dancer Antonio Gades leaning against a shared column
Palacio del Conde Lombillo
Plaza de la Catedral from Palacio del Conde Lombillo
Abandoned building, abandoned car
Plaza Vieja
This Framerican Life 
Magnifiques photos toujours : c’est surréaliste ! On se croirait revenu dans les années 50 avec toutes ces merveilleuses voitures multicolores. Elles valent de l’or !
Beaucoup de travaux de réfection à réaliser au niveau des bâtiments !
C’est quoi ce “studio ctrl alt suprimir” ? Une maison particulière ou un cyber café ?
Bisous.
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c’est vrai que c’est vraiment dépaysant : architecture, voitures, les rues, on a l’impression d’être dans un vieux film.
et alors c’est si dur que ça de trouver à manger? pas de resto, épicerie, vendeurs ambulants? j’imagine que vous vous rattrapez au guatemala! bisous à vous 2
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Ce qui nous a étonnés sont les magasins vides :
Les épiceries offrent un rayon huile, un rayon pâtes, et un rayon rhum.
Les magasins de vêtements et chaussures ont trois paires en vente et deux T-shirts.
Symptomatique de ce système ultra-socialiste sous embargo.
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Rien à dire sur les magnifiques photos. Toujours parfaites. Je suis quand même en manque de commentaires sur les personnes , leur vie quotidienne, les jeunes, les enfants…. et en général sur votre opinion personnelle à propos de votre expérience cubaine que je sens un peu mitigée. Je vais lire les deux autres chapitres sur l’île, je vais essayer de lire entre les lignes pour savoir si Cuba est dans votr coeur.
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