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From: LindyBill	6/28/2005 11:48:05 PM
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So you wanna go to Cuba, eh? Here's a first hand account I just recieved from a reader via email: Babalu blog Some years ago I got a catalog from a Canadian company offering trips to Cuba. My husband and I thought it sounded interesting and signed up. After all my family lived in Coral Gables in the winter and talked about Cuba all the time since it was a favorite destination. I have movies of Cuba. My brother learned Spanish there. We were not in the country for an hour when we realized we had just signed up to visit a vast jail. All my parent's descriptions of Havana and their favorite hang outs were there but the streets were filled with sullen people and despite all the countries I have visited, and they are 50 in number, I have never seen such rampant prostitution. Despite some efforts to smarten up downtown it was a tired city, the Corniche was practically in ruins and the countryside was worse with those air conditioned dollar stores next to shabby tiendas offering a few onions and oil and rice rations. We visited a botanical garden which had been the summer home of a friend's family and when I mentioned it I was given a look of such hatred I still remember it. We would have gone home immediately and even thought of faking some illness to get out but ten days later we were in Toronto where American customs pounced on us. Last year the government fined us $2,000 for the visit and my husband said it was one fine he was glad to pay because we never should have gone and hated every minute of it. So thank you Mr. Branson for adding to the vast tourist pool of eager sex tourists and for the moral degradation of having my husband accosted by two 13 year old girls offering to have sex with him. But there is one thing I remember and it was always one of the things my family talked about. There was music everywhere, wonderful music that was pouring out from every door and window. It reminded me of Merida in the Yucatan when they sing the melodies of Cuba. Keep up the blog. It's great!" babalublog.com

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