Blogs from La Habana, Oeste, Cuba, Central America Caribbean - page 25

Mann, wie hatte ich mich auf Kuba gefreut. Ich war noch nie in der Karibik. Und bei Fidels sozialistisch angehauchten Politsystem dachte ich, dass ein paar Kindheitserinnerungen wieder wach werden. Kuba, das Land, das schon seit ueber 50 Jahren immer noch mitten in der Revolution steckt; wenn man den ganzen Propagandaschildern Glauben schenkt. Kuba, das immer noch im Klassenkampf steckt und einen Ché Guevara derart omnipräsent praesentiert, dass man meint er biegt gleich um die Ecke und kaempft weiter. Gegen die boesen Kapitalisten!. Doch kommt diese seit ewig andauerende Revolution, das politische System den Menschen tatsaechlich zur Gute? Kann man mit 10 US$ im Monat (kubanisches Durchschnittsgehalt) ueberleben? Kann man in Haeuser leben, die fast zusammen brechen? Wie kann ein Staat gleichzeitig seine eigenen Menschen in erbaermlich zerrotteten Haeusern hausen lassen, a... read more

Happy Christmas! Feliz Navidad desde Cuba! Not that I have the slightest Christmassy feeling… today is xmas eve and its basicly like a normal day! We r pissed off coz we wanted to go to the beach but the weather (which has been glorious for the past few days) is shit! Also our Cuban mama, Lily, is doing a special meal tonight and my stomach has not been behaving itself for nearly a week now… grrrr! Here, most ppl celebrate Navidad in some form with their family, tho apparently they mostly do a meal - rice, beans, meat (probably pork) and yuca… so in other words, what they eat pretty much everyday! We r lucky, gonna be treated to some Italian influenced cuisine. I’m thinking off u guys snuggled up inside against the cold, huddling round ... read more

Today was Cuba at its most frustrating. It started with needing to sleep in a little. For some reason I woke at 4.30am and couldn't get back to sleep until after 6. But then at 6.45am the hotel staff were dispatched to various points throughout the building where they shouted at each other at the tops of their voices on and off until I finally gave up and got up. If there's one sound of Cuba I won't miss at all it's Cuban women shouting - they seem to have developed a piercing yell that penetrates better than gamma rays, and they use it to have conversations with distant neighbours without needing to be in the same place. So leaving the hotel I had my final sights lined up for an easy day, and it all ... read more

Narrowly avoiding another missed flight connection, I made it onto the Cubana flight to Havana - the first Soviet airliner I've been on and also the first plane with a built-in smoke machine... As the (loudest ever) engines went into full thrust for take off, the cabin filled with cold water mist for added atmosphere... Havana is an amazing city, much of it the crumbing ruins of somewhere grand but with life going on regardless. Opulent houses with marble staircases and the remains of ornate plaster ceilings, apparently unpainted for decades. The famous 1950s American cars mixing with battered Ladas and Moskviches rattle along the pot-holed streets. Once-chic shops with huge cracked windows with nothing in them. And everywhere the hussle of people trying to sell you charlie, cigars, spliffs, girls, accommodation, restaurants. Music spills onto ... read more

I marts 2007 rejste vi rundt på Cuba i 14 dage. Billedet viser Martin og Christina på restaurant i Havana.... read more