[Leica] Just back from Cuba

[kargue at sympatico.ca (Kevin Argue)]

Jim and Ted,
                       My sister and her husband were at a resort in Cuba in 
the last month. A guest slipped and was injured in the hotel. Cuban doctors 
looked after the women and the hotel went out of their way to help out. Cuba 
has a good medical system, just not up to date with new technology due to 
the embargo. The resorts do not want bad publicity so they will look after 
you. As for travel shots, Hep C would be a good idea. Check with your travel 
company. Credit cards will work as long as they are not American cards or a 
company owned by Americans such as the one so called Canadian card we had. 
Cubans are on a learning curve for tourism. Don't expect food, service and 
accommodations like america or Europe. Resorts have stores where you can buy 
coca-cola and other american things that com from Mexico. If you are in 
Havana and  you are offered a deal on cigars, be polite and pass. They are 
not real and in some cases  whats inside in terrible. American business is 
looking forward to opening up so Old Havana will see McDonalds, Pizza Hut 
and KFC. Heaven forbid! There is a lot of great photo chances with old cars 
and old buildings. In the squares Cubans debating baseball or playing 
dominoes. There is history related to Hemingway such as the bar Floridita. f 
you are in Havana, you may get the odd power failure. In the resorts, they 
have tv's in the rooms. My sister is able to watch Canadian news.

Kevin Argue


On Dec 20, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Jim Laurel OFFERED:
> Subject: [Leica] Just back from Cuba
> 
>>>>>>> I just flew in from Havana. Here's the scoop from the airport on the
> way home...<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> ================================================== 
> 
> Hi Jim,
> A most interesting de-brief for future CUBA travellers! Clean, simple and
> certainly encouraging!
> 
> CUBA has been a holiday haven for a great number of Canadians for years
> without restriction as I understand. My oldest daughter after a visit a
> couple of years ago was so enthusiastic, she would return in the blink of 
> an
> eye because of her contact with the local folks and the overall beauty of
> locations across the Island!
> 
> Your descriptions about people and places will/could create a kind of 
> annual
> LUG CREW gathering each year. Certainly for the Canadian == USA members I'm
> sure. By the same token it could become a major visitation location once a
> year for everyone on the LUG.
> 
> An "International LUG Festival" where it would be "all fun folks learning
> from each other, shooting together and of course? "photos of each other as
> we've done in Barcelona" in the past.:-)
> 
> Thanks for your most interesting out pouring!
> 
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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