Country/Town visited: Havana, Cuba
Date of stay: Oct 2011
Where you stayed: La Casa De Ana
Travelled with: Wife
Tour or pre planned: Pre-planned
Havana is likely your first stop in Cuba and if you’re flying in from either the UK or Mexico, take this as a forewarning; keep away from Cubana Air. It’s worth paying the extra to fly with a different airline (with Aeromexico for example). Reason? Almost every flight is either delayed by 11 hours or cancelled.
Havana is such a vibrant bustling stinky dirty colourful old-school wonderful city. You can be on one of the main streets in Centro or Old Havana where there are impressive colonial buildings surrounding you, colourful Chevys, Chryslers and Fords whizzing by and music from every bar spilling out onto the streets, and then you can take a few steps onto another street where you are surrounded by crumbling roads, dilapidated grey houses and the odd pile of rotting headless chickens heaped on the sidewalk.
The city seriously seems stuck in the 1950’s, as the old cars outnumber new ones 10:1. They are a real highlight, and provided many photograph opportunities. However, the amount of smoke they emit means that simply walking down the street can be hazardous to your health. Jumping in one will result in you breathing in pure unfiltered exhaust fumes that somehow leaks into the car (seriously, each car should carry a Surgeon General's Health Warning). Add onto that the wafts of cigar smoke that often drifts into your face and you have a pretty decent recipe for carbon monoxide poisoning. After a while though your lungs get used to it and you’re sucking it all in with the best of ‘em.
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