Wow. OK. 4 days not enough mate!

Do the Hemingway stuff. La Floridita and Bodega Del Medeo, his house and where he stayed in the Hotel Ambos Mundos. We had a 10 am Mojito livener there every day on the roof top bar.

Go to a dancing club at least once. Thousands of people Salsa dancing in a big room, amazing, doesn't matter if you can't do it.

The people are amazing, interact with them, go to a rum shop/bar, they can't take $US so you'll need to get your hands on local currency, difficult but possible.

Just walk, walk around take in the fading grandeur round old Havana and the old cars and all that stuff, stop for a drink at a bar every so often.

Go to a cigar factory. Smoke big fat cigars.

Eating out, not so great but they are allowed to open up their homes as restaurants for a few people a night (called Paladares), this was the best food we had away from the big hotels.

Hotel Valencia OK for grub, Hotel Inglaterra the only place you'll get a cup of tea with proper milk. Amazing interior, there is a brilliant Salsa club just up from there on the main drag.

It's the least Americanised place you'll ever go to, like a different time.

Drink Mojito's and Dacquiris. Love it.

The Cubans don't like talking about life there unless they are certain that the local CDF (Comit?s de Defensa de la Revoluci?n) snitch isn't listening.

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You'll see their signs up outside houses on every street.

The people are wonderful and warm just relax and enjoy it.

Posted By: jafski, Mar 21, 10:25:11