Our fascination with Cuban ice cream began a few months before our visit to Cuba. One evening we decided to watch the iconic Cuban movie, “Fresa y Chocolate” (Strawberry & Chocolate), nominated for an Oscar back in 1993. The seductive…
Cuba
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Are you free spirits – travellers who prefer to venture off the standard tourist trail? We most definitely are, but we found this particularly difficult to do in Cuba where Viazul bus routes reign supreme. There’s so much to see,…
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When we arrived at the start of our month long travel adventure in Havana, Cuba, we started to research how we could travel between some of the towns and cities by train. We were keen to avoid travelling all the…
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If you’re traveling to Cuba, you may have wondered how you can make your money go further by fully understanding the Cuban currency system? By the time we arrived in Havana at the start of our month-long journey around this…
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In the final days of December 1958 Che Guevara led his column of armed revolutionary fighters into the central Cuban town of Santa Clara, which would become the site of some of the most decisive battles of the Cuban Revolution.…
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As long term international house sitters, one of our passions is travel and a destination we have both wanted to visit for a long time is Cuba. With house sits arranged in Mexico during December last year, and March this…