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Title: Steves Havana Trip 2009 Comments
Post by: JohnnyCastaway on February 09, 2009, 01:44:09 PM

Please post all comments to Steve on his Havana Blog here.  We'll leave the blog for Steve to post in only so that we have a clean chronology of his travels and adventues. 

Title: Re: Steves Havana Trip 2009 Comments
Post by: Bulldog on February 09, 2009, 02:57:39 PM

Great Idea JC  :grin:

I must say Steve, that meal you have there looks so yummy I might just book a flight for the meal  :ROFL:

 :respect:

Title: Re: Steves Havana Trip 2009 Comments
Post by: mojitomiss_cuba on February 11, 2009, 09:42:26 AM

As usual, enjoying reading Steve's updates. Today's really hit home for me. The part about the state of some of the living conditions and how heavy his heart was on the way home. When we were there last fall, we didn't do the usual tourist tour and were in some areas that I too could not bring my camera out to photograph. Like Steve, I felt it was too intrusive to these proud people. But the state of many of those apartments/buildings will stay in my head forever.

What a dichotomy Cuba is.

Title: Re: Steves Havana Trip 2009 Comments
Post by: flopnfly on February 11, 2009, 12:22:03 PM

We got off the beaten path at one point, and I couldn't believe the state of some of the buildings and the dirt and squalor that they are living in.

Title: Re: Steves Havana Trip 2009 Comments
Post by: Bulldog on February 11, 2009, 12:25:56 PM

I took this picture, as no one was around this place..

(http://www.7daysinparadise.com/gallery/d/41299-2/z_002.jpg?)

Most of what I saw broke my heart, this place obviously not lived in but most where not much better !

Title: Re: Steves Havana Trip 2009 Comments
Post by: mojitomiss_cuba on February 11, 2009, 03:05:53 PM

bulldog, I saw some that weren't that much better than the ones in your pic and they were being lived in :(