'16  Havana, Cuba  

It may seem like August would be too hot for a visit to Cuba but with the sky cloudy due to a hurricane in the east, Havana was the perfect temperature.

Hotel Nacional
Hotel Nacional de Cuba built in 1939.  It feels like Bogart and Bacall will step out onto the patio any moment.

elevtors
Hotel Lobby Elevators

peacock
View from the patio

30's
Famous faces at the Hotel Nacional from  the 1930's, oh, and infamous too --there's Meyer Lansky

40's & 50's
Celebs of the 40's and 50's staying and performing at the hotel

beer
Beer by the ... tall tube!  It's a micro-brew restaurant with very good brew!

capitol
Cuba's Capitol, a 1/2 scale copy of the U.S. Capitol

cars
Havana's version of Uber ... without the technonolgy

che car
The Che G. car

Floridita
An afternoon at the Floridita, Hemmingway's Havana hang-out

house_1
One of the many unbelievable rooms at a house converted into a museum.
Some of the rooms had walls panelled with silver

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staircase

peacock
The grounds of the hotel served as a defensive outpost during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  It is now a museum.

u2
A portion of wreckage from the U2 spy-plane shot-down over Cuba