Havana

Friday 10 June

 

Had breakfast with the Adelaide couple before they departed for Cancun and New York. Ralph shared his Vegemite with me so a real breakfast treat. There was no rush today so we took our time this morning before venturing out.

 

Today's adventure was a ride in a classic car - a 1948 Ford. We only wanted an hour but somehow it turned into 3. However we had asked him to take us to Hemingway's house and that was quite a distance away in an outer suburb. It was an interesting drive there and a lovely house. How the other half live!

 

We saw a number of broken down cars including one that had lost a wheel and was stranded half across the road. Our driver took us through a couple of the wealthier suburbs and we stopped by a river where there were creepers covering the trees and pretty much everything else. It was like the jungle was taking its territory back. This was obviously a favourite stop for the classic car people as a number of cars came and went while we were there.

 

We finally returned to our hotel, scraped together enough Cucs to pay the guy and went inside to change more so we could have lunch. First it was a long, cool lemon drink in the hotel, then we walked back to yesterday's restaurant and shared an enormous chicken paella. Between the two of us we almost polished it off. Then it was back to the hotel to recover, have a little snooze and laugh at our photos.

 

 

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