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Here is one of the world's longest lasting handy techniques to get dinner: meat on a hook, on a string, throw the string into the sea. Wait.
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This is Maria Antonia. She is a school teacher. This is her living room. She sleeps upstairs.
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Here is a real Havana landscape. This is from the 7th floor of an apartment building built in the 1950's. You can see the full ext...(more)
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Moving slowly from Havana old town to Vedado. See the fisherman, traffic, and skycrapers. You can't smell the leaded gasoline fumes mingling with th...(more)
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Here is a harbinger of the future. There was a day when there was no paint for sale in Havana. Nowhere. You just couldn't get it. Now...(more)
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This is a perfect little tree-shaded city park just a few steps from the bustling San Rafael pedestrian shopping street.
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Poor Tony. Now I'm back in Havana after ditching the rental car in Santiago de Cuba and grabbing a flight. A sad end to a road trip that began...(more)
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That's an oil refinery you see all the way over there across the water. They process oil from Hugo Chavez' empire down south. In...(more)
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It's not nature's most perfect food chain, but food chain it is. These fishermen are capitalizing on the rather nasty polluted water here, catching fish that have nothing else to eat.
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Undeniably, there is something perversely romantic about Havana. It is the same reason some people love to see movies ...(more)
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This man's full name is Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios y Blanco. It probably is no wonder that they didn't install ...(more)
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This is the Prada (aka Paseo de Marti), Havana's fanciest Boulevard. It's where the royalty used to go, to see and be seen, early last century...(more)
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The Malecon empties out somewhat, after sunset, leaving only the dedicated rum drinkers, lovers, and scammers. We met a man with no hands, with a bottle of rum in his hands. Yes, we did.
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I asked politely. Begged. I discreetly tried to bribe everyonein the room (one woman and one security guard). But they just wouldn't let me upstairs to make some panoramas. Oh, well. This will have to do.
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The taxi ride to the airport let me enjoy the first huge rainstorm I'd seen in my ten days here. I was lucky with nearly constant sunshine...(more)
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Another nice example of mid-20th century signage hanging in the street. Also, is that a security camera, neatly modded into that wrought iron light post?
