WHAT’S YOUR MOST MEMORABLE HOLIDAY? When I left EastEnders my sister Patricia and I did a 16-day tour from New Orleans to Nashville. We did the Thelma and Louise thing and drove a red open-top Chevy. New Orleans is such a party town – we went to all the jazz bars – and the food, […]
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Cuba warning: Make sure you do THIS or risk having your items confiscated
Cuba has become a popular holiday destination for Britons in recent years. Despite travel being easy for UK citizens, the end of the embargo for US citizens meant that the island reported a huge surge in travellers. As more hotel chains and cruises are choosing the Caribbean island, it is set to change a lot […]
Heading to Cuba? Government to reopen ‘LOVE HOTELS’ to encourage intimacy between couples
The Cuban Government has announced that it wants to reintroduce state-run ’love hotels’ to the country. In a bid to encourage intimacy between couples, many young families are currently living in small houses or apartments without any privacy. Even divorced couples are forced to live together due to the current housing crisis. Advertised as a […]
1950s vibe, blue waters and great cigars: Discover Cuba after Castro
PH A picture-postcard sunset at the resort There are two speeds in Cuba – slow and stationary. The country may be opening up to tourism more, but there’s still a very 1950s vibe about the place – and it is all the more lovely for it. We stayed in Cayo Santa Maria, 100 miles off […]
Southwest the Latest Carrier to Cut Back Flights to Cuba
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Through the lens: Cuba beyond the Cadillacs
Share this article A photographer’s dream, Cuba has long captivated artists, writers and travelers with its vintage cars, cobbled streets and colorful neighborhoods. But Cuba isn’t just a pretty face. Social structures, a fraught relationship with the US and years of Castro rule make it fascinating for a thousand other reasons. Photographer Nicola Bailey takes […]
What Trump’s Cuba announcement means for American travelers
If you didn’t make it to Cuba before the Trump transition, or if you did but, like most people who visit, you can’t wait to get back, last week’s policy shift announcement is a downer, to be sure. It is not, however, a full-stop prohibition. For now, at least, here’s what you need to know: […]
Trump’s hardline on US relations with Cuba could create a blind spot in a major drug-trafficking corridor
President Donald Trump announced on Friday the reversal of several key parts of Barack Obama’s normalization of relations with Cuba, which started in December 2014. Before an enthusiastic anti-Castro crowd in Miami, Trump signed a directive that restricted Americans’ ability to travel to the island, prohibited financial dealings with the Cuban military, and laid out […]
Trump’s hardline on US relations with Cuba could create a blind spot in a major drug-trafficking corridor
President Donald Trump announced on Friday the reversal of several key parts of Barack Obama’s normalization of relations with Cuba, which started in December 2014. Before an enthusiastic anti-Castro crowd in Miami, Trump signed a directive that restricted Americans’ ability to travel to the island, prohibited financial dealings with the Cuban military, and laid out […]
‘Not in a position to lecture’: Cuba fires back at Trump, says blockade ‘destined to fail’
Havana has blasted US President Donald Trump’s decision Friday to roll back much of Barack Obama’s policy of rapprochement and imposing new restrictions on Cuba using the pretext of human rights concerns, calling it a case of double standards. “The United States is not in a position to give us lessons. We have serious concerns […]
