Day 2: A Walk in the City

Lunchtime was approaching and Craig and I were getting hungry so we decided to go for a walk in the city to a little place called Restaurante El Baturro, a very popular restaurant in Havana. It was only about a 10 - 15 minute walk away from the Parque Central.

As we walked through the streets towards our lunch destination we had a quick look at some of the real buildings in Havana, the buildings that people live in and use everyday. Paint was chipping off the walls of the run down buildings with bits of cement missing from some too. People were sitting on chairs in doorways just hanging around seemingly without a purpose while laundry hung in the windows above to dry; it was quite a sad thing to see really. People living in squalor as the tourism business boomed all around them, never seeing a single peso of it. Yet the people seemed happy, laughing and talking with each other like everyone was a friend.