food
Getting a taste for Cuba's food and drink revolutionDec 8, 2015 • 5 min read
In Cuba, the word ‘revolution’ usually conjures up images of bearded guerrillas puffing on cigars rather than imaginative chefs preparing platters of…
Cuba Travel Stories
foodExploring Cuba's 500-year anniversary citiesOct 26, 2015 • 5 min read
Soon after arriving in Cuba in 1511, conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuellar set about founding seven pioneering villas (towns) in the new colony with the…
beachesDitch the crowds: Cuba’s top five alternative beach staysFeb 6, 2015 • 5 min read
Beautiful beaches are as iconic as cocktails in the Caribbean, but in Cuba only a handful of coastal destinations are well known. If crowded resort…
- festivals and eventsUnderstanding vodou in the Caribbean
Nov 11, 2014 • 5 min read
All too often, the Caribbean’s default tourist mode is its carefree picture of beaches and rum. Rinse and repeat: it’s a staggeringly successful formula…
road tripsOn the road in CubaJul 14, 2011 • 6 min read
'The road is life,' wrote seminal American author Jack Kerouac in the 1950s, inadvertently summing up Cuba's post-Special Period transport system in just…
- foodAround the world in 5 signature drinks
Jun 9, 2011 • 3 min read
Drinking and holidays go together quite well, don't you think? There's a certain romance to sipping a cocktail in a strange city, and there's no better…
beachesEl ritmo cubano: Cuba's musical soulAug 10, 2009 • 3 min read
Rich, vibrant, layered and soulful, Cuban music has long acted as a standard-bearer for the sounds and rhythms emanating out of Latin America. From the…
beachesGoing green: ecotourism in CubaAug 10, 2009 • 3 min read
During the lean years of the 1990s, the Cubans were ecologists by necessity. But as times changed, so did the public zeitgeist. As the country faces the…