How to find a good restaurant?

Good food in Cuba In Cuba, good food can sometimes be difficult. How do you find a good restaurant? You basically have four categories of restaurants in Cuba: good and expensive, bad and expensive, Cheap and good and Cheap and bad. How not to How do you make the distinction? Certainly not with Tripadvisor because […]

Where to eat? State or Paladar?

Where is the best place to eat in Cuba? In the private restaurants, also called Paladar or at state owned restaurants? Some sort of comparative research halfway through the year after the CUC was abolished. On January 1, 2022, the CUC officially no longer existed and you could no longer use it to pay. All […]

Havana es Havana!

Havana: Nothing compares to it! Last update 12/2018 Some fun facts about Havana and a few must-sees just of the beaten track. The capital of Cuba is the biggest city in the Caribbean. ‘Havana es Havana’ say the Cubans, and it is hip and happening. The Old Lady is bent and bruised but just got […]

Cuba Embargo

The US embargo is hurting Cubans in different ways

Cuba Propaganda

Propaganda… We have it too! “Always Coca Cola”, “Mc Donald’s, I’m loving it!” We have our kind of propaganda in our capitalist society. Our propaganda aims to make us consume particular products and services. If you are aware of this or not, it works… Ministry of Propaganda I do not want to get into the […]

Rent a Motorcycle in Cuba

Until recently people that wanted to rent a motorcycle could only rent 50cc scooters that were not fit to discover the whole island. And those are no real bikes at all.  Piaggio Something in between the scooter and a real bike is the Piaggio It’s not a real motor cycle but not a shitty scooter […]

Drugs in Cuba

Don’t do drugs in Cuba. Don’t buy drugs in Cuba, Don’t bring drugs to Cuba, Don’t use it, sell it or talk about it. Don’t even think about it. Cuban policy on drugs is very, very severe. Very… Punishment Punishment for drug offenders is severe if you are caught with drugs. You will spend a […]

Local Havana Hero

Finally, I did it! I’m a HERO A local one, that’s true, but I am a Hero 🙂 (just a local one). What happened? TripUniq a website that specialises in unique trips (the name gives it away) is expanding to Havana, and they asked me to be one of their Local Heros… Their website is […]

Cuba safety and dangers

Cuba is known for her safety and lack of dangers Cuba is very, very safe. Incredible safety! We can be very short about that. If you don’t do idiotic things, you will be safe. In Cuba, the police are very respected and not always visible (a lot of undercover agents keeping you safe.) Nobody will […]

Cuba Peso

Two Peso in Cuba The currency in Cuba is called Peso. Both of them are called Peso. So if people say Peso, then they are talking about CUC or Moneda Nacional (MN). Up to you to figure it out. CUC Peso The CUC is the Cuban ‘hard currency’, pegged roughly 1-1, to the US dollar. […]