Friday, April 07, 2006

More Travel Plans

The AM is restless. This does not portend well for a lot of people. He is leaving to Bush Land for a few weeks and maybe do a peekaboo in Vegas to play a game of Blackjack sometime in between the nuisance called ‘work’. After that it is the Scotch trail in Scotland.
A bit more about the Scotch trail: Scotland is the home of Scotch (You knew that already? Wow, aren’t you the smart one) There is a tour which takes you on a circuit of all the major breweries there. You get to taste the whiskey made in each of them and hopefully will get drunk in the process. In case the samples are not enough, there are thousands of pubs that serve quality scotch to help you reach your goal. The tour lasts about four days and if that isn’t bliss, then ‘bliss’ needs a makeover.
Going to plan out a trek to Tibet. Anyone wanna join, drop me a mail, this will be happening in the last week of May and it will last two weeks.
Cheers!

More Havana photos (Do I come up with creative titles or what!!)

The Marina Hemingway. Senor Hemingway used to sit right here and sip on Mojitos and Daiquiris while he wrote whatever it was that he used to write.


Fruit and vegetable market La Habana Vieja. Not many choices for the discerning connoisseur. Hell, the locals are lucky if they can afford a dozen bananas. Economy in Cuba is as healthy as Dick Cheney.


People waiting patiently for their turn to use the Internet in Avenue Obispo, Old Havana. If the locals want to use the internet, they have to apply to the government. They get 15 minute coupons that they take to one of the few internet cafes that the locals are allowed to use. Browsing is a no-no, emails only. Foreigners get wireless internet in their hotel room.


The Avenue Malecon, one of the better places to spend an evening in Havana.


The Russians with their brilliant sense of architectural beauty built this monstrosity of an embassy.
In a road filled with lovely Spanish colonial mansions built in the early part of the 20th century, this eyesore stands as a testament to the “whose willy is bigger?” competition of the cold war era.


The Capitolio. Funded by the Russians and built during the cold war to rival the Capitol in DC. It is in ruins and filled with rats, though they dont wear suits like their counterparts in DC.


One tends to find hoardings like this all over the country, some depicting him as Hitler, some as, dracula. Though I searched high and low, I couldnt find Bush in a Santa Claus costume. One reaches the conclusion that President Bush isnt exactly a popular figure here.
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