CUBA TRAVEL SECTION - Havana Journal > Individual Journeys
Liz Brown, Canwest News Service
For many Canadians, Cuba is a ray of sunshine during our bleak northern winters. After a morning of slogging through the rain, who wouldn’t dream of lounging on Varadero’s white sands, frosty Cuba Libre in hand, or sipping a mojito in Havana at Ernest Hemingway’s favorite bar, La Bodeguita del Medio.
But travel beyond Varadero’s famous beaches and Hemingway’s haunts and you’ll find a smaller, more laid-back city on the opposite side of the island.
Trinidad, in Sancti Spiritus province, isn’t as well known as other Cuban destinations, but…
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Don Townshend peers into Cuba’s prosperous past on a trip through the country’s agricultural heartland.
Sydney Morning Herald
We mill impatiently outside the railway station in Trinidad, central Cuba, glancing at our watches and peering towards the train shed. The train is already 20 minutes late and nowhere in sight. “Some days,” remarked a Cuban tour guide to his group, “the train it cannot come because it is very old.”
Fortunately it isn’t one of those days. Ten minutes later, preceded by cantankerous snorting and a pall of black smoke, veteran locomotive 1432 shuffles…
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from email notice:
The Norwegian chapter of C.E.U. - Council for European Urbanism - http://www.ceunet.org - invites you to join a one week study tour of three Cuban cities and UNESCO World Heritage Sites; Havana, Cienfuegos and Trinidad, 1 - 8 March 2008.
The tour will be followed by an optional one week charrette in Old Havana and the neighboring town of Casablanca, 9 - 15 March 2008.
STUDY TOUR, 1 - 8 MARCH 2008
Repeating the success of our 2007 event, the one week 2008 Tour will include an introduction…
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Greetings from sunny Cuba and chilly Canada.
We at Cuba Education Tours are excited to share our new tours with you.
Special note to our US friends: If you are a full time professional in a field that corresponds to one of our Cuba tour themes we can help you go to Cuba legally. Please consider sharing this great news with your friends.
All of our new tours are detailed at http://www.cubafriends.ca
* Teachers Familiarization Tour from March 15 to 22 is a rare occasion for mentors to witness the island’s…
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Just a small article from DTCuba.com but the figures regarding travel to Camaguey is interesting (of course one never knows the actual statistics since nothing is independently verifiable from the Cuban government).
DTCuba.com
The eastern Cuban province of Camaguey is improving quality during the high peak season in the Caribbean island tourist sector.
The reanimation and revitalization of the province’s tourist product has resulted in the remodeling of hotels and infrastructure.
In addition, 39 new works were underway in the province during the second semester of 2007 and will continue this year.…
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By SALLY MELCHER JARVIS, Correspondent for LancasterOnline.com
The train looked very familiar. It was the same maroon color as former Pennsylvania Railroad cars; Hershey was painted on the side in gold letters.
But this train stood in ankle-high grass outside Havana, Cuba. It was the original train line built by Milton S. Hershey in the 1920s to take workers to his sugar cane factory 70 miles away, and to bring the sugar back to the harbor for export to his chocolate manufacturing plant in Hershey, Pa.
Spurred…
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(I found this travel blog entry to be very well written and a great description of the typical tourist vacation in Cuba and from a women’s perspective. So, congratulations on a great trip and I hope those Cuban men didn’t scare you away from a second trip - Publisher)
from Beebs and Laura In Latin America | Trip Date: Sep 01 ‘07
Location: La Habana, Ciudad de la Habana
We left our beloved Playa for the last time and had a hectic last minute check-in at Cancun airport, and after an hour found ourselves…
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A cadre of boatyards - Cuba’s future recreational vessel repair facilities
By Don Barr | CubaCruising.net
When the political climate changes in Cuba, and more boaters are cruising its waters, will opportunities exit for them to have quality work done at Cuban yards? I enthusiastically think so.
Having completed several boat building and repair projects in Cuba over the last ten years, I have observed Cuba’s well-sheltered bays and have worked in its many boat yards using their respective equipment and labor. Currently, there are no travel lifts at any yard in Cuba, and…
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By Ray Oliver | CubaCruising.net
As a lad growing up in Newcastle, England, I read the novels of Ernest Hemingway and imagined traveling the world, with Cuba being one of my dream destinations. After sailing the Atlantic in 2000, and landing in Barbados, I knew that one day I would have to travel north to see Havana for myself. This is the story of that misadventure.
My boat Cymar, an 11-meter Amel Kirk I bought 10 years previously in Port Carmargue, Southern France, carried me across the Atlantic. I cruised the Med with my wife, until…
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PETE CLARK | Scotsman.com
Saturday morning, on a small boat a few miles from Havana. We left the Hemingway Marina about two beers ago with the idea of catching a marlin, one of those fish with a long spike on its nose. Although the fishing seat looked comfortable enough, it brought with it responsibilities.
A more appropriate resting place was to be found by the small cabin, where a lookout could be maintained. The sky was perfectly blue, as was its mirror image the sea. Nothing happened for a very long time, nor did it need…
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