Category: Cuba

  • Cuba: Some of Our Favorite Memories

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    Havana is the living, breathing heart of Cuba, and one of the most diverse, engaging, and friendly cities we’ve ever been to. Perhaps more than anywhere else we visited on the island, Havana produced the feelings of uniqueness, independence, and distance that I mentioned in my last post. Cuba’s capital is a patchwork of hundreds…

  • More Questions than Answers in Cuba

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    In our last post, Nick commented that Cuba didn’t feel homogeneous like the US can feel, where almost everywhere you go, you’ll find the same stores, fast-food restaurants, hotels chains, etc. At the same time, one could argue that Cuba, while refreshingly void of Starbucks and McDonald’s, is even more homogeneous than the US in…

  • Introduction to Cuba

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    Cuba: the country that has attracted, vexed, and frustrated generations of Americans, from Hemingway to Ted Cruz. It’s been on our shortlist of destination goals for a while, so close to home and yet so far ideologically, politically, and culturally. With the US regulations limiting travel there opening up slightly in 2015, and an invitation…