Had another busy day today. After breakfast and good Cuban coffee we headed to meet with the head of the Havana Episcopal church to explain the systems we intalled and drop off some equipment.
We then picked up a married Cuban couple, friends of Rick, who became our local tour guides. We toured Hemingway's house outside of town in the hills, saw the local government buildings and then walked around the local Spanish garrison built in the 1590's.
We had lunch on the top floor of a very nice hotel and walked through Havana Vieja, Old Havana. Very nice part of town with fancy hotels, restaurants and shops.
We saw lots and.lots of old classic cars and motorcycles from Russia, the USA and Czech Republic.
I have surprised by the number of small private businesses in a "communist" country. The locals call it "the change" and it has been going on for 10-15 years. It provides local food and services cheaper than those provided by the government. It's a kind of tolerated black market.
We also had our picture taken with John Lennon, his statue on a bench in a park. He was very popular here due to his song Revolution. When a guy in our group put a hat on his head a local woman came over and told him to take it off. You don't joke around with the former member of the Beatles.
Hard to believe we fly back to Miami tomorrow morning.
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