Yah mon, chukka!
[Sorry about that. Somehow I published a draft yesterday, sans editing and sans photos. I know because one of my readers offered me a...
Cantores y Lulus
The highlight of yesterday’s exploration of the Local Culture of Cienfuegos was a concert given for us by the 19-singer Cantores de...
Cienfuegos, or One Hundred Fires
There is no story of 100 fires. Señor Fuegos was an early city father, though the city was founded, in the late 1800s, by French...
Bienvenido a Cuba!
Repeat after me: ‘Cooo-bah.’ And, yes, they still serve the first illegal cocktail I ever drank: a Cuba libre. And, yes, rum is the drink...
Passepartout Going Zero Dark Thirty
Mrs. Malaprop is misappropriating a military term to announce she will be ‘dark’ for the next 30 hours. I won’t take my laptop to Havana...