The City of Havana was fantastic but a lot more run down and neglected than we envisioned. The buildings were so delapitated and un kept mainly due to the American embargo which over the decades has screwed the Cuban economy and no more funds from the USSR I guess. The City needs a good few billion spent on it get it back in tact!
However saying that Havana had an amazing charm and the people are the friendliest you will ever meet.
Site seeing in Revoltionary Square
The city of Havana and all the beautiful cars
We were really looking forward to travelling along the northern coast of Cuba - hopping along some anchorages before crossing the Yucatan channel to Mexico.However we did not realise how much of a pain it would be. The officials told us when we left Marina Hemmingway we would have to check in and out of every anchorage we went to and provide them with a list of the places we were going and how long we planned to stay.
It all sounded like so much of a palavor - especially knowing how long it took to check in the last time. We were also on a time limit as we had our flights booked back to the UK for the beginning of June so we decided to sail straight to Isla Mujeres in Mexico.
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