The Day We Went Off the Resort Map to Explore Santiago de Cuba and the Island of Cayo Granma We met another couple at the resort who understood a simple truth about 1980s travel: if you want to really see a place, you ask the people who live there. They spoke to the towel attendant — a woman with …
Cuba in the 1980s
The Moped Adventure in Cuba That Changed Everything
Up until this point, the trip had been a mix of surprises and small disappointments — rocky beaches, rationed towels, food that didn’t quite agree with me. But everything shifted the morning we finally got our hands on two mopeds and set out on a moped adventure in Cuba! We woke before sunrise, …
Canadian Travel to Cuba in the 1980s: The Other Side
Part 1: Santiago vs Varadero The late 1980s were a hopeful kind of decade — at least for me. I was young, curious, falling for someone new, and just beginning to peek beyond the borders of my home country. I’d traveled to the U.K. for work, spent a week in the Dominican Republic, and somewhere in …
