Cuba 2015, 05 Boxing and baseball. With soccer thrown in as a third, these are the two most popular sports in Cuba. Today, we visit one of the most important training gyms for boxing in the country. But first, we walk. We walk and walk and walk. We poke our heads in here and there. […]

Cuba 2015, 04 It is an early morning for us. We are headed for Valle de Viñales, or Viñales Valley, another of our UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The valley is a karst depression in the Pinar del Río Province. Dotted with limestone, “sugar-plum” hills covered in plants unique to the area, it is a fantastical […]

Cuba 2015, 03 We get to sleep in a little bit, meet for breakfast, and make trips to the bank to change Euros, Canadian Dollars, or USD – US dollars. The banks, after all, are not open over the weekend. Arnie and I always bring CUCs from the previous year, so if people cannot change […]