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Aussie guys visit Cuba

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Aussie guys visit Cuba as part of their Central American adventure, then the Covid-19 virus started spreading around the world. Sadly this caused them to cancel the rest of their trip & fly back to Australia.

La Plaza bar & restaurant

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Michael Thornton, my brother Warren Herd, Doug Beattie & Chris Lockwood aka Dr Evil.

Tour Guide

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Narrow streets in Havana

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One of many forced marches across town with full kit because the streets were too narrow for vans & buses to get to our accomodation.

The boys are bored silly.

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Waiting a couple of hours in a busy bus station did not excite us.

Vinales valley

Aussie guys visit Cuba

With the pincushion mountains in the background. The thatched roof building is a tobacco leaf drying shed.

A Cuban tractor.

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Having a cigar break?

Hey Chris check out the horses arse.

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Fuck off Dougie, your getting stranger than that other idiot you brought with you.

One of our tour guides

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Making friends with little porkey.

Cuban Schoolgirls

Aussie guys visit Cuba Walking along the sea wall that was built by Americans.

Beautiful old American cars

Aussie guys visit Cuba American cars were imported into Cuba for about 50 years, beginning near the early 20th century. After the Cuban Revolution, the U.S. embargo was erected and Castro banned the importation of American cars and mechanical parts. That’s why Cuba is the way it is today—essentially a living museum for classic cars.

Rickshaw & classic cars

Aussie guys visit Cuba Choose your transport in Havana, taxis, classic cars or rickshaws.

Maybe this is more your style

Aussie guys visit Cuba

It’s probably a Uber. 🙂

Our best meal in Havana

Aussie guys visit Cuba Lamb with Cuban sauce with rice & vegetables.

Desperately looking for a signal

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Panic is setting in, everyone is frantically trying to get a signal.

Is Warren taking the knee

Aussie guys visit Cuba False alarm, he is also looking for a signal. 🙂

A giant cock

Aussie guys visit Cuba Please give it a rest Kevin, it’s a bit early for your cock jokes.

The tour group

Aussie guys visit Cuba March 2020 in Vinales Valley Cuba.

Looking west from our hotel balcony

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Lamparilla St, in English it means night light or small lamp.

Our last night in Cuba

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Aussie guys visit Cuba

Hallelujah! Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.

Thanks for visiting the Aussie guys visit Cuba photo blog. Here is David Herd’s trip to Cuba in 2001.

Havana Cuba great city

Here is my favourite artist, Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname “La Guarachera de Cuba”. Wikipedia

That’s all folks

Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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