Sightseeing in Old Havana

Monday, 4/10:  Sightseeing in Old Havana

We started the day (and the other days we were here) with a breakfast buffet, Mimosas, and music.  This trio was very good.

We took the courtesy bus from the hotel to Old Havana.  The city was surrounded by walls of a fort, to protect it from pirates.  Many of these buildings are hundreds of years old. 

  

Earnest Hemingway spent a fair amount of time in Havana.  We saw the hotel where he supposedly worked on “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and one of the bars where he drank.  This photo is of the wall outside one of them, lots of photos and signatures from the era.

Note the cobblestone street