Cuban money and legal purchases in Cuba
Five CUC and three CUC convertible peso notes are shown with a souvenir Cuban flag. The CUC currency, designed to be exchanged for other currencies brought to Cuba by visitors, isn’t used...
Five CUC and three CUC convertible peso notes are shown with a souvenir Cuban flag. The CUC currency, designed to be exchanged for other currencies brought to Cuba by visitors, isn’t used...
Met a wonderful guitar player in Cathedral Square at twilight. Two standouts will be forever memories when it comes to the music we heard in Cuba. On the advice of a friend...
Ropa Vieja is a Cuban dish served everywhere. Usually it is made of beef, but pork is sometimes used. I’m now working on my stories about Cuba for a series that will...
Hotel Inglaterra in old Havana, seen behind the statue of Jose Marti, is one of the oldest hotels in the city. It was a great headquarters for my first two nights in...
Floral tributes to Cuban poet and hero Jose Marti were placed in front of his statue on the May 19 anniversary of his death in 1895. My Havana hotel, the Ingleterra, is...
This necklace, crafted from a silverplated fork left behind when Batista supporters fled Cuba in 1960 , was something I bought at a craft market near downtown Havana. No I didn’t buy...
That’s me in an old car serving as a taxi in Havana. A week without cell phone, internet, or credit cards in Cuba underscores the profound impact those things have on our...
The I’m soon headed to Cuba on a legal people-to-people study trip flying from Miami. Most go there illegally from Toronto, Jamaica or another Caribbean island, since Americans have been permitted legally...
Learned a lot while talking to Civil War reenactors for the story that will run Monday about the Memorial Day weekend encampment and reenactment of the Battle of the Wilderness at Lake...
A cable car makes it way up San Francisco’s Hyde Street leaving the Fisherman’s Wharf neighborhood behind There’s rarely time enough to experience all of San Francisco, so I chose my...
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