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  • One of the most interesting places I've been

  • and it has been on the top of my bucket list for many years

  • was Cuba.

  • I just recently returned from Cuba and

  • what a great experience it was.

  • The Cuban society is very very much in the art world, be it music

  • art or dance.

  • The city is surrounded by art work we went into a neighborhood where

  • the bus stops and the homes the front of the homes looked

  • Gaudi architecture like Barcelona.

  • One of the suburbs we went to literally made street signs and street

  • statues out of trash.

  • Out of hubcaps out of steering wheels

  • things that you just are throwing away and

  • they create something magnificent out of it.

  • Not to mention the cars . . .

  • its exciting to see the old 50's Chevys and Cadillacs

  • so that was fun.

  • The music is everywhere you go every restaurant we went to

  • there was a band playing.

  • In the streets the old men play their drums and guitars and

  • get up and dance and the women do the same and

  • it it's just it art just permeates the country and

  • in every every shape and form and its

  • just enjoyable to watch so if you like music and art you'll love Cuba

  • Keep in mind when you travel to Cuba being a communist country and has been

  • closed off for

  • quite a while certainly from the United States, you do need

  • to travel with a licensed company.

  • You're not free to roam and go about where you please.

  • The standard of accommodations

  • would not be as we have in the united States anyway,

  • what we consider five star is

  • almost non-existent. What they consider five-star

  • is the equivalent of our four-star.

  • And so it's not perfect by American standards anyway

  • but as long as you go with an open mind I think you'll have a great time.

  • The sooner you go the better.

  • It will open up to the United States eventually but I think it's best to go

  • before any of that happens and you get to see the true

  • culture of these people how wonderful they are.

One of the most interesting places I've been

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