by eliasc64 | Oct 19, 2014 | Destinations, Europe, Italy, South Italy 2014 trip
We arrived in Catania with a flight from Rome. The sign next to the car rental office warned us not to leave any luggage in the car nor to park the car in the city center. After one hour in the queue, we finally got our car and took the road to Castelmola, a small...
by eliasc64 | Jan 25, 2014 | America, Cuba, Destinations, Trips
I had been in Cuba in 1999, long before I rediscovered my passion for photography. These were difficult times for the island, right after the “special period”, the time after the collapse of the Soviet Union that sent Cuba into famine and despair. I stayed...
by eliasc64 | Jan 22, 2014 | America, Cuba, Cuba 2014 trip, Destinations
We woke up in 18th century Havana. I had no clue what I booked us into, but it seems that you get what you pay for, or so I thought that morning. Hotel Santa Isabel was built in the 18th century as a private house and was turned into a hotel in the 19th century. It is...
by eliasc64 | Jan 18, 2014 | America, Cuba, Cuba 2014 trip, Destinations
In the morning we left to Santiago de Cuba. The road became narrow, with horse carriages, bicycles and the occasional truck that made driving more challenging, so it took five full hours to reach our destination including a half hour stop in Bayamo, a beautiful town,...
by eliasc64 | Jan 16, 2014 | America, Cuba, Cuba 2014 trip, Destinations
Right after we started we stopped at the nearby gas station to fill the tank and it was strange that I was asked to present my passport to buy gas. We discovered that the back tire was flat. It took 20 minutes and two government employees, one specializing in changing...
