Up early. A walk to the cigar factory in the main part of Havana. The heat of the day was somewhat at bay as we walked over. Compared to where we're staying it seemed like a bustling metropolis. Turned out the cigar factory was actually a shop and the factory was another 3km or so. Tomorrow then.
We walked towards the museum and approached by a guy (Mikey) doing hour tours of Havan in a nice convertible, so we hopped in. That’s the driver in the photo (whose name I sadly can’t remember).
He regaled us with lots of interesting facts and it would be really good for the blog if I could remember any. Stuff about the revolution.
We stopped off at a few places en-route. There was a park with a statue of John Lennon in. Lennon never came to Cuba but the park is where kids would defiantly sing and play rock 'n' roll, even though you could be locked up for it. Also, Mikey said, you could be sent to a camp for five years just for speaking English. Fun days. Then we went with him to a bar with more live music (Jagger and Harrison Ford had been there according to photos on the wall) and had a Mojito. We then headed back to the main square with cigars, and nice rum.
We'd lost a couple of litres in sweat by then. Found a pizza place about ten minutes walk from the house so had some lunch. About £4 for two pizza and three soft drinks, so we tipped another £4.
