things to look at, night noise.
-Cuba was difficult to travel to in 2011; Jay was referred by a friend to cubatravelservices.com -in each city he stayed in a private residence called a casa particular -U.S. credit and ATM cards were not accepted; best option was to enter Cuba with Euros or U.S. Dollars, then change into a local currency -the two local currencies: Cuban peso and the Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC) used by foreigners -Jay was able to make himself understood but did not necessarily understand; Jay says that he does understand Spanish but only when he is the one speaking it -universally, you need nouns much more than you need verbs -in Trinidad, Jay realized he was running out of money, the Swiss to the rescue -in Havana: beautiful buildings, some in disrepair; decidedly tourist and non-tourist neighborhoods; food at a cafeteria dutch door; the National Museum of Fine Arts (Wikipedia.org) -no usual line in banks, instead queuing up without a queue -loud nights with dogs and roosters, cars, music blaring -Cuba stretches more than 740 miles across and is 120 miles wide; is slightly smaller in area than Pennsylvania 52 minutes 02-14-22 debug comment |