Viva - needs a revolucion ! - Cuba

Drafting this at Havana airport, awaiting my flight to Mexico city … kindly upgraded (3^rd time this trip) … this is about the only place in Cuba that offers decent internet access … (Cuba is connected only via satellite).

It is currently winter in Cuba but still around 30 every day, and humidity is high, guaranteed afternoon rain every day.

Cuba is one of the strangest places I have visited.  Havana is completely different to the rest of Cuba. It is so run down, with buildings crumbling all around (except the embassies) it feels like most of the houses were bombed a few weeks ago (click for random street scenes) yet there is a real earthiness to it, and those that live outside Havana (even though the areas and homes are nicer) aspire to live in Havana.  ( old car snaps are further down).

For 21 years I have often thought of a big fat Cuban with a Mojito …

But now I don’t smoke … 20 a day in the early years, 40 a day in the latter, a smoker for 23 years … I wanted a cuban with a mojito for the most part of that ..

I’m in Cuba (cannot load pics here but will when I get to the states) you gotta see it, to believe it!

 … 2 mojitos in & 1 x cuba libre in, soooo wanting a big fat Cuban (cigar not bloke) … but yet I can’t ..  I quit with Allen Carr easyway, 2 years ago, who teach you to get off nicotine .. as much as I want that Cuban, I know it is packed full of the stuff, and one drag will see me addicted again.