Cuba - Intro

We had been looking for a week-ish-long jaunt option within a flight or two that would let us really get away without taking all day to travel there. One Saturday morning I picked up the travel section of the Globe and Mail and read a question to the concierge about how to see Cuba without staying on an all-inclusive resort. BOOM! The idea was born. A half dozen public library guidebooks and two sets of latin american Spanish language CDs later, we headed south.

Looking for some adventure, a totally different culture, possibly a good mojito or two, and a break from a very hectic fall, we headed for Cuba from November 5-12, 2013. We could not have anticipated what an unusual place Cuba is - if you venture off the resorts. We spent three nights in Habana vieja, a night in the French colonial town of Cienfuegos, two nights in the Spanish colonial sugar trading hilltop town of Trinidad, and a night in Varadero on the north coast before flying out.