The last stage of our tour saw us returning to Havana for one final night. On the way we stopped off in Santa Clara and the Che monument and museum to learn a little more about the Cuban hero from Argentina. We wondered what he would think if he saw modern day Cuba. The monument itself was impressive and the museum was the same as most museums in Cuba (totally in Spanish and displaying numerous nik naks). Fortunately our guide translated the story and made it as ...

We landed in Havana airport approximately 10 minutes before a tropical storm hit, phew. The baggage collection was the first part of Cuban craziness that we encountered. There were hauds of people waiting for luggage, exacerbated by three flights of luggage being on one carousel, but mainly because all the Cubans had clearly been shopping elsewhere for things they can't get in Cuba. Each person had at least one trolley stacked up with boxes and boxes of goods. Af...