Cuban bathrooms

cuban-bathrooms

Cuba has, shall we say, a more relaxed approach to elec­trical safety than some other coun­tries. In part because it’s poor — good elec­trics are expens­ive — but also, I sus­pect, because of some ignor­ance and lack­a­dais­ical enforce­ment too.
But I was still sur­prised to see this shower in our first B&B:

I will say one thing, however […]

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Transport in Cuba

Trans­port any­where in what can be con­sidered a third world coun­try is quite a chal­lenge to any­one used to online book­ing of easyJet flights. But… if you’ve arrived with West­ern wealth then it’s never going to be all that bad either. I mean for sure, your chances of arriv­ing on time are little […]

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First Impressions in Cuba

If you fly with First Choice on their Cuba West Trav­el­ler scheme they give you your first night’s acco­mod­a­tion free. The idea, we think, is that in Cuba you can’t just turn up as a typ­ical itin­er­ant and expect to wander about. Of course, that’s exactly what you can do… You just need […]

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