Armchair Travel – Cuba

01/02/2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

Landscape view of a tobacco farm. The tobacco leaves are drying on the roof of the little hut.

Almost four years have passed and yet, as soon as we hear the opening tunes of Buena Vista Social Club’s Chan Chan, we are automatically transferred to this Caribbean island.

Picking the photos and facts for this post was a real pleasure and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Let’s get lost in Havana and never return… part 2

25/09/2018.Reading time 11 minutes.

One of my favourite photos, me in front of an army plane at Granma Memorial in Havana.

… El cariño que te tengo
No te lo puedo negar…

Let’s get lost in Havana and never return… part 1

20/09/2018.Reading time 16 minutes.

Sun rising over Malecon, Havana. It is early morning and there are only two cars one the road, one of which is a mint coloured 1951 Chevrolet.

… El cariño que te tengo
No te lo puedo negar…

Befriending the chief of police at Cienfuegos

08/09/2018.Reading time 15 minutes.

An old man is sitting on the wall by the seaside in a light summer suit with a panama hat on his head.

The driver added a little trailer to his Ural 250 motorcycle and used it to transport people. Definitely one of the most fun rides we had on the island

Horseback riding through the rural areas of Trinidad

07/09/2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

A picture of my husband riding a horse taken from horseback. The ears and part of my horses neck are visible.

We saw palm trees surrounding small houses with colourful facades slowly fading in the Caribbean sun, animals running through the yards and streets and old buildings that are being taken over by the nature around it

How Trinidad stole our hearts

02/09/2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

View of Trinidad from an oblong window with me sitting in the middle silhouetted by the outside light. There are storm clouds on the horizon.

…no matter how pretty the photos in the guide books were, they did not, could not, do justice to the beauty we found…

Mate, we're lost!

Tag: Cuba