Our short 37 minute flight, from Cuba to Miami, transported us back into the 21st Century, from third world to first world.
My conclusions on Cuba. If you are looking for an experience of a bygone era, get there now. If you are looking for a comfortable, luxury destination, visit Cuba in 10 years time.
With such a checkered history of war and strife – from the Spanish, the Americans, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile crisis, civil war, poverty, communism, socialism and so on – the people are a friendly and helpful. They are, at present, in the main happy with life but through lack of exposure to the rest of the world and communist indoctrination, they know little else. There is, however, definitely a feeling change is in the air, especially among the younger generation.
Looking back, yes we went as tourists but if asked now, we would not be lying if we said we had gone there to find out more about the people and culture of Cuba and we have come away richer for the experience.
Miami airport was a dog show and customs clearance took forever.
Back at the Diesels’s home it was all stations go, washing and repacking for our next leg to the west coast of the US.
We went to Le Tub for a sunset dinner, another quaint restaurant shack on the waterfront of Hollywood ( the Miami Hollywood). The had the house speciality, burgers, one of the best I have tasted. It’s so nice to stay with ‘locals’, you get to go to all the hidden gems that you would otherwise not know about.
Thanks Wayne and Jean for your wonderful hospitality and sharing Cuba with us and all the laughs.
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