Oh gosh, just as I was about to write a cool and warm email about my things i've been through in the last weekend in HAVANA, I saw that there is a double cold front heading our way, tomorrow, 16 degrees, in two days, 15.....so much fun, it will give me the chance to pull out my
winterfashion I guess.
Anyhow, be prepared, these are my pictures of my weekend in La Habana, prepare yourself, hopefully all 16 of them fit on this mail :)
BTW excuse my french/english/spanish/dutch/qualquier lengua que hablaré...
The first thing that made us sure we had reached la capital, the José Marti monument. It is the tallest building in Havana, and I thought it was 130-something metres high. It has an elevator that takes you all the way to the top floor, and no, I did not go in, I had other priorities.
That same saturdaynight at the Wakamba restaurant. They were out of their famous wakamba chicken (what that tastes like I'll never know, and who the hell runs out of their signature dish....its like going to KFC and hearing that theyre out of chicken....:P)...So I just took fish
steak, which was awesome as well.
This is the view off the 11th floor of an apartmentbuilding. It shows the Malecon on the right (malecon is like THE street that runs alongside havana bay)....and it shows the Vedado district and the famous Melia Cohiba somewhere on the left, its a five star hotel. Its pretty high
as well ;)
Yep, I just realized that its 12 more to go...wow you people should feel so lucky and shit. Moving on: I just thought that the dutty (=dirty --jamaicans make me sick) street sign made so much more sense. It was a feeling of accomplishment because we had been dying to go to havana
for 4 (!) fleeting months.
This is the Yara theatre on La Rampa aka calle 23. It is right in front of Coppelia. Its the biggest cinema in Havana (therefore cuba as well)....they were showing Daddy Yankee videoclips....so I just passed. They had the infamous coco-taxis in front of it waiting to rob you outta
your hard-begged money.
Thats me in front of the Habana Libre complex. Back before 1962 it was called the Havana Hilton. Now its just another five star hotel with a huge shoppingcomplex with nice clothes, triple sec and some Mikimoto pearls. Funny isnt it?
The weird part is that I was robbed when I first came to Cuba. They took my not so diversified colelction of earrings and earplugs and whatnot. I bought a pair that I could swear were the same ones. Either way, this was taken in the souvenir market on La Rampa, they had some cool shit :)
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