'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 de Cuba built in 1939. It feels like Bogart and Bacall will step out onto the patio any moment.
Hotel Lobby Elevators
View from the patio
Famous faces at the Hotel Nacional from the 1930's, oh, and infamous too --there's Meyer Lansky
Celebs of the 40's and
50's staying and performing at the hotel
Beer by the ... tall tube! It's a micro-brew restaurant with very good brew!
Cuba's Capitol, a 1/2 scale copy of the U.S. Capitol
Havana's version of Uber ... without the technonolgy
The Che G. car
An afternoon at the
Floridita, Hemmingway's Havana hang-out
One of the many
unbelievable rooms at a house converted into a museum.
Some of the rooms had walls panelled with silver
Some of the rooms had walls panelled with silver
The grounds of the hotel served as a defensive outpost during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is now a museum.
A portion of wreckage
from the U2 spy-plane shot-down over Cuba