I am only going for 5 nights and my house guy has already agreed to stay here with his wife and take care of the animals and the house. I am taking my son and his gf from Los Angeles along with my partner. It was kind of a bribe to get him to come down and see me. We will only be in La Havana as there isn't enough time for much traveling. I probably will go back at some point to see some of the rest of the island. I'm not really interested in the beach resorts, I lived on the caribbean for years, but I am interested in the art and the artesania from the countryside as well as the mountains and inland. My son is really interested in the old cars and I am too so I did book a tour for our first day there , 5 hours being shown the city in an antique car. Most people say and the pictures I've seen agree that the old part of the city is very much like this city I live in. Just another colonial Spanish sea port
I think most of our time will be checking out the music, food and art. I'm feeling very intimidated about the Spanish, I will be the only one that is even semi fluent and the Cuban accent is a real challenge. I've been taking songs over to my friend from Puebla, MX to get help figuring out what they are saying and she just laughs at me and says she has no idea, she can't understand them at all. Her sister was married to a Cuban and she said that at family dinners he would say something and the whole family would look at her sister like 'what did he say?' Oh boy..
