Havana

We have arrived in Havana after a very bumpy roller coaster flight.
Internet is slow and expensive $9 US per hour.
Havana is a great place and is very colonial looking.



Photo : The view from our 8th floor room in the morning





We arrived at our hotel in the evening and were a bit unsure of where we were and what the people were like. We didn´t walk far and had dinner next door. The amazing thing about food from restuarants is that you can order the same meal from the same waiter on consecutive nights and end up with 2 completely different meals.
The next morning we travelled on a city tour bus to visit the highlights of the city. Havana is a very large city with 2.2 million people. It was with surprise that we noted the differences in the city. There were modern buildings and so many

colonial buildings sadly in need of repair.


There
were hundreds of people everywhere and many old cars and many bicycles and many taxis and many horse and carts and many people, walking, gathered on street corners, resting in doorways, queued at shops. Really undescribable.














Photo : View of Havana across the harbour













Photo : How beautiful is this








We rode the bus and stopped at a rum factory, which is a great place to be at 10am. Th guide was extremely funny and talked non stop, filling us in on the details of rum making. He spoke fluently and it was on sentence in Spanish and immediately repeated the sentence in English. Very entertaining and informative. Rum here is 3 to 5 $ per bottle.

We finished the rum factory visit with a flaming coffee. A cappuchino is made with local coffee and then heated rum on fire is poured into it and Yum.







Photo : And the old cars are every where