What’s an overseas adventure without 48 hours of transport to kick it off! Day 0: Sydney, Dallas (complete with epic Tex-Mex) to Mexico City (for real Mex and an overnight rest) then a walk around Mexico City at dawn and off to Havana, Cuba. Cuba is a truly unique place – host to the greatest cities of the Spanish Americas, gold, pirates and forts since the 1600s then turned into a mobsters paradise in the 1940s and 50s. Modern history has served up revolution, communism and the USA embargo - freezing the entire country in time - the last communist outpost 90 miles off the coast of Florida. The modern world is making its way in but Cuba is still an intriguing mix: dilapidated, determined, dirty, developing, and full of a people with mixed stories of
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