My husband and I went to Cuba in October 2019 -- it was a life-changing trip. We visited cool places like Hemingway's home outside Havana, a state-owned cigar factory, and Fabrica de Arte Cubano -- an expansive art gallery/nightclub combo, ate a lot of fantastic food (including La Guarida that Andrew mentions in his article and Santy Pes…
My husband and I went to Cuba in October 2019 -- it was a life-changing trip. We visited cool places like Hemingway's home outside Havana, a state-owned cigar factory, and Fabrica de Arte Cubano -- an expansive art gallery/nightclub combo, ate a lot of fantastic food (including La Guarida that Andrew mentions in his article and Santy Pescador, a sushi restaurant that was featured in Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown) and saw some incredible live music, but meeting Cuban people is the real "wow" of the trip. They are smart, resilient and warm. It breaks my heart to think about what many of our Cuban friends are going through due to the pandemic. It was clear then that tourism had helped the quality of life for many and that the additional restrictions had hurt. I hope that the US will normalize travel to Cuba again in the not too distant future. I cannot wait to go back.
My husband and I went to Cuba in October 2019 -- it was a life-changing trip. We visited cool places like Hemingway's home outside Havana, a state-owned cigar factory, and Fabrica de Arte Cubano -- an expansive art gallery/nightclub combo, ate a lot of fantastic food (including La Guarida that Andrew mentions in his article and Santy Pescador, a sushi restaurant that was featured in Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown) and saw some incredible live music, but meeting Cuban people is the real "wow" of the trip. They are smart, resilient and warm. It breaks my heart to think about what many of our Cuban friends are going through due to the pandemic. It was clear then that tourism had helped the quality of life for many and that the additional restrictions had hurt. I hope that the US will normalize travel to Cuba again in the not too distant future. I cannot wait to go back.