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Mon, 7 Mar 2016 | By excellentadventure | Views [236]
When travelling by bus in Cuba be sure to buy your tickets 1 or 2 days in advance. Took us 5 hours from Havana to Trinidad, where we met Lewis (Julio's cousin?) who took us to Charbela and Andres casa. Dont always asume you'll be put in the casa you ... Read more >
Sun, 6 Mar 2016 | By excellentadventure | Views [237]
I went to the Museum of Fine Arts (because i'm classy like that) and Mike sort of visited the Museum of the Revolution. San Jose Markets are cool, I was tempted to buy a canvas painting. We discovered that Cuba loves tourists....much like Italy ... Read more >
Sat, 5 Mar 2016 | By excellentadventure | Views [251]
Decided today would be a classic car day. We bargained with the driver's "pimp", getting him down to 30 cuc for 45mins...which he agreed to at the time but gave us a lecture when we came back. It was SO fun though. The only Buick in Havana, everything ... Read more >
Fri, 4 Mar 2016 | By excellentadventure | Views [240] | Comments [1]
So Mike loses his bank card in a machine, on a Sunday in the most non-techy country in the whole wide world. The story goes - he was already feeling anxious with lots of people around, then the machine spits out the cash in 5 peso notes...which ... Read more >
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 | By excellentadventure | Views [277] | Comments [1]
Headed to Central Park and found where all the cars hang. Casa del Chocolate for some cold and hot chocolate drinks with special orange and mint filled hand made chocolates. Just wandered around - Capital Building, Old Havana, had an icecream, laughed ... Read more >
Wed, 2 Mar 2016 | By excellentadventure | Views [201] | Comments [2]
I wrote a poem about my first impression of Havana. The buildings stood tall, once grand and polished, now grey and decayed. The streets alive as people move through a labyrinthe of colonial architecture. Dancers graced the fort, draped in vivid blue, ... Read more >
Tue, 1 Mar 2016 | By excellentadventure | Views [266]
From Managua to Cuba with a short stop in Panama. A lady farted right next to me during our stop over - hilarious! Arrived in Cuba in the evening. Practiced our Spanish with Eduardo the taxi driver. He liked Cuban music...alot. Lots of old ... Read more >
Wed, 4 Nov 2015 | By lentocaminar | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 7 Aug 2015 | By tininiskasimpson | Views [253] | Video | Scholarship Entry
hola soy Tininiska simpson, graduado de dirección de fotografía de la Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio, Cuba. Resido en Colombia desde el año pasado. Me gusta el cine documental porque me permite acercarme a realidades y retratarlas.... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia
Sat, 18 Jul 2015 | By wuweitom | Views [278] | Video | Scholarship Entry
Proven nomad that lived many interesting stories to tell to the world & worked passionately to make it happen. I´m latin and lived-worked in Colombia already. I assure that I will be able to document local idiosyncracies & paisas in a unique way to share ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 | By sheree | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 19 Jun 2015 | By sheree | Views [497] | Comments [1]
We shared a taxi again with our Irish friends to Varadero. We had another incident with the cab drivers who tried to charge us $130 CUC when it should have been $90 all up as he agreed on 45CUC for both Matt and I the day before. Luckily we had the slip ... Read more >
Tags: 1950s american cars, beach, caribbean, cuba, resorts, sea, swimming, varadero
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 | By sheree | Views [528]
Vinales
The man was holding up a piece of paper with our names Sheree, Matthew James, Australia written on it when we pulled up to the bus stop. We walked along the neighbourhood to the house where Kary welcomed us. We were now used ... Read more >
Tags: casa, cigars, countryside, cuba, farms, fruit, taxis, tobacco, trinidad, vinales
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 | By sheree | Views [572]
We passed through grey clouds as we descended in to Havana and it was raining as we arrived. This wasn't a surprise as it is now their wet season which is very humid and rains/storms in the afternoon. We had not booked accommodation for Havana but were ... Read more >
Tags: buildings, cars, castro, che, cigars, cuba, havana, malecon, mojitos, music
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 | By jorjejuanita | Views [411]
El ron de Cienfuegos Arrived late afternoon on the Viazul bus. Winging Cienfuegos - we forgot to book accommodation in advance for this stop. A friendly Ivan took us to his uncle's place to look at and if we liked it we could stay.... Read more >
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