Rebar chairs, Trinidad and Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Rebar chairs
January 19, 2011
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Town of Trinidad, Cuba
January 15, 2011
The entire 16th C town of Trinidad on Cuba’s south coast is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its heritage designation, as well as the complete—and for a Vancouverite visually relieving—absence of land speculators and developers in Cuba has kept the town very close to its original condition.
Handmade garlands, Cuba
January 9, 2011
At a music school in the town of Trinidad.
Hemingway’s bar, hotel room
January 7, 2011
Hemingway locales in Cuba: La Floridita, one of the several bars that claim he invented the daiquiri in. (Though this one is the most likely.) The room on the fifth floor of the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where he wrote two novels is remarkably small, though the views are great.
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Modernist house, Cojimar, Cuba
January 6, 2011
Not far from Havana, this is the fishing village where Hemingway kept his boat during the decades he lived in Cuba. A local told me this house belongs to a fisherman.
Hemingway’s villa in Cuba – Finca Vigía
January 3, 2011
This is the Cuban villa where Hemingway lived from 1939-1960 and wrote many of his best known novels. It sits high in the town of San Francisco de Paula about half an hour outside Havana, and from the patio you can actually see Havana in the distance, hence the name Finca Vigía or “Lookout Farm.” The villa was discovered by Hemingway’s wife at the time, Martha Gelhorn, who was seeking somewhere spacious for the two of them to live.
Coast guard tower, Cuba
Just off the Playa Ancon outside the town of Trinidad, Cuba.
Che by Félix Beltrán
December 31, 2010
This poster of Che by well known Cuban designer Félix Beltrán was commissioned by the Castro government upon news of Che’s 1967 murder in Bolivia. Soon after Che’s body was found, versions of this poster were produced in a number of different languages for all the embassies in Cuba, while the Spanish-language version lined the streets of Havana on the day of his 1967 memorial parade here.
Chocolate!
December 25, 2010
Holiday
December 20, 2010
Happy whatever winter holiday you observe, longest night of the year maybe, or, in the southern hemisphere the longest day, or Christmas, or ‘Holiday‘ or whatever else. Drive safely.
