Central America

Camagüey Library

Poked my nose into the municipal library in Camagüey and it was like going back in time.   No computers.  No flexible furniture.  Blackboard.  Really not that many books. And card catalogues!   Love it that Fidel has a whole drawer for himself 🙂

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Eating in Cuba

There are two ways to eat in Cuba – the cheap way (where you pay in CUP) and the expensive way (where you pay in CUC). Most visitors to Cuba stick with whatever Lonely Planet and TripAdvisor recommends, and I admit this is how I found some of my favourite meals in Cuba: Santiago de

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Music in Cuba

One of the reputations Cuba has is that it is the land of music.   And while music is certainly much more prevalent and a much bigger part of the culture in Cuba than in Australia, it wasn’t quite on every street corner as you may be imagining. The no brainer way to enjoy some Cuban

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Getting around in Cuba

There are no chicken buses in Cuba.   There are many forms of transportation, but not a single chicken bus – I guess the United States embargoed the sale of their old school buses along with everything else. That being said, foreigners are very limited in which long-distance public transport they can actually take – and

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