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Dump road I love Cuba, but it isn’t always easy. Independent travel here is very doable, but I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone.  The food shortages are the hardest on the locals, but they are felt by everyone who is not staying at a resort. The Cubans are so...

The birds we have seen and heard along the Bay of Pigs has been outstanding. Up until yesterday we were lucky enough to see most of Cuba’s endemic birds, with the exception of the Cuban parrot. Gord continues to add that we also haven’t seen an iguana, but I don’t...

When we were travelling in Cuba twenty years ago all of the hosts at our various  accommodations voiced support for the government.  The Special Period, a time of economic hardship after the USSR dissolved and Cuba lost its sponsor, had ended and there was...

Cuba has the most diverse traffic of any place that I have travelled.  There are cars, of course, more than there were 20 years ago, but still far fewer than in most countries.  The ‘50s classic cars, a stereotype of the country, still do in fact constitute a large...

The final major battle of the Cuban Revolution was fought in the city of Santa Clara.  Under the command of Che Guevara, 340 guerrillas engaged government forces about ten times as large.  In an incident that is well remembered in Cuba, a small band of the rebels...

Yesterday I gave some ibuprofen capsules to a woman working at the art gallery next to our casa particular in Remedios. Her knees were swollen with arthritis, and she was telling us that she can’t get anything for them.  I had read before I arrived in Cuba that...