This was the day when some display cases took me to the... It was little by little. I was snapping my roots without imagining that a few years later a war would shatter lives in that region. The world goes crazy and sometimes I lose my sanity too. I have written three posts and also decided not to publish at least two of them.
First I passed by the Tabarish restaurant on O'Reilly Street in Old Havana and from there I walked to a plaza near the pier.
Do you see a compass inside this display case? Maybe not, but something related to Rakhmaninov.
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For the record, you can also see Tchaikovsky and his Lake... but I prefer the other one.
Geez, why can't we just focus on the music and leave the differences behind?
Wait, what's that over there?
I borrowed the camera...😜 and went to the dock on Harbor Avenue. Then I saw it and how curious, through a glass, again.
MAJESTY OF THE SEAS
Havana, August 2018.
And a rainbow.
Well... this is not a happy ending....
A year later Cuba said goodbye to the cruise ships that had revived the tourism sector a bit since U.S. President Barack Obama favored that opening.
With the arrival of Donald Trump to power, a new package of measures against Cuba was put on the table prohibiting these trips.
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As I said, Russia and Ukraine are at war, something I still find incomprehensible even if each side has its reasons.
Trump returned to the presidency.
Bitcoin surpassed its All Time High and is headed to 100K.
Cuba is getting poorer and poorer.
And I am about to throw myself into the sea (poetically speaking 😅).
I don't know what I have yet to see.
Sorry.
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Cuanto ha cambiado todo...y para peor 😔, pero hay belleza en los recuerdos y en las fotos del pasado y hasta en la realidad actual. Un besito Amanda, lindo fin de semana.
Ay Amanda... siempre habrá belleza claro que sí. Hasta un ahogado es hermoso.
El ahogado más hermoso del mundo / Gabriel García Márquez
Te lo envío para que lo leas completo si no lo has leído. 😉
Puedes verlo aquí
Un besito.
Ay Nani!! Ese cuento es hermoso!! Ya lo hemos leído, Oli y yo hicimos una búsqueda de cuentos cortos cuando la pandemia y ese apareció enseguida en la búsqueda. Me encanta el Gabo, no he leído todo lo que escribió, pero todo lo que he leído de él me encanta. Gracias por recordármelo, volveré a él, mi memoria es pésima y no recuerdo detalles. Lindo día 🥰🤗
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Coincidentally your sister saw in a store the Russian dolls, and today you bring them in your post. How much I would give for you to know Kiev but always after the war is over. What a beautiful Cruise and the rainbow. Cuba needs to show off its finery again for the good of all Cubans. A kiss daughter I love you.🥰❤️
What a coincidence! Hahaha... Well, they say that coincidences don't exist. Surely we were connected in some way. I love you so much Mamani. 🤗
Me entrometió en esta conversación sólo para decirte @mamani, que me alegro de verte por aquí.
Un abrazo muy grande
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No digas eso no es entrometimiento es que puedes, porque veo que me extrañas y eso me hace feliz. Gracias. Estoy bien, la situación va mejorando ya tengo corriente 🔌 y en este momento agua. Así es la recuperación, muchos aún no tienen ni techo y pienso mucho en eso. Agradecida por tu preocupación. Un abrazo. 🤗
Buenos días @mamani, me alegro de que me consideres un intruso. Y me alegro de saber que las cosas van mejorando.
Te deseo un gran domingo.
Un abrazo 🤗
Interesting about cruise ships, I know many locals cannot stand them. I remember last year going back to the Orkney Islands where I grew up. The whole population is only 20k and when the two daily cruise ships land their passengers the population goes up by 50% and the capital town gets doubled in size and the locals cannot breathe for tourists. But yes they bring money, but at the same time ruined the magnificent 5000 year old archaeological sites.
As for politics and war, politicians are all corrupt egotistical arses.
All I know if an invading country tried to invade my country then damn right I would fight them.
Big hugs and have a beer for me!
I understand.
But Cuba has no industry... we have a good climate, the countryside and also a lot of tricky mechanisms that prevent farmers from progressing, as well as shortages... in the midst of so much chaos there are people who take advantage and then the middlemen appear and everything becomes even more expensive. Then we are left with the tourist sector because we have a lot of sun and beaches... in short, the situation is complicated here.
I think that since the pandemic, the tourism sector here is at rock bottom. How does this country survive? Many of those who had rental houses, for example, had to give up their licenses. And so... this is a never-ending story.
Wars only enrich those who are in the arms industry and those who provoke them, playing dirty games to obtain geopolitical benefits and even to steal resources because they already lack them due to so much exploitation and so much consumerism.
I am a pacifist.
Yes, I'll drink my beer tomorrow. Lol.
Hope you are well and thanks for stopping by! Big hugs.
Yes it is not so good. You have the weather, which counts for so much. Here we are in SAD season and only yesterday another person took their own life here in our town. Winter is so depresssing, never underestimate the power of the sun.
Enjoy that beer I shall have one later too!
That's what I did as soon as I woke up today: I went out with my cup of coffee to sunbathe among my plants.
How sad what you are telling me. I'm sorry, very sorry.
We humans always have a tendency to dissatisfaction. I think the problem is not what is outside, but what we carry inside.
wow absolutely beautiful images of the parts of some people's lives.
you forget to add the crazy more of year of the war Iran-Lebanon-Gaza-Israel - two proxy wars against my tiny country.
yes music is the treatment but not many knows about it, especially in the countries when the Music and Art are "banned"
Yes :( I am aware of all the world wars and conflicts. And these things cause me infinite sadness, it's terrible what is happening over there. One day I was covering as a journalist an event where, through virtual reality, I was inside that destruction and I felt so bad, I couldn't stop crying. Such a strange feeling... because it's not the same as watching the news. I felt like I was there and it was shocking, desolating... faith in the human being is completely lost under those conditions.
Plus it's gone on for so long and there's no resolution to the conflict in sight.
I am very sorry about this.
yes too far and the regular ppl only suffering from these.
it's not easy to be a journalist. one should become neutral in his/her feelings and expressions and to tell the story from both sides. noooot easy job.
thank you for your kind words
Yes, complicated.
I gave it up recently although I am still a journalist at heart.
And thanks to you for these thoughtful exchanges.
so maybe you should document less dangerous and destructive events, cos our way of doing this is very interesting as the storytelling today
always my pleasure
We live in strange times indeed, love your memories x
Well... I had that feeling of looking at a photo album and a lot of thoughts about life and the passing of the years and what we were and what we are...
I wish you well. A big hug.
back at you xx
Changes and more changes...so much colour and then only shadows. I hope with all my heart for freedom. Beautiful that mini piano. Photographs that make you travel through time. Hug!🤗
Beautiful you!
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I love that you shared this one with me. Do you know that the first time I saw it I cried? He has something in his voice... thank you!
What a shame he suffered from that condition and died so young. 😞
What if instead of throwing you into the sea, I take you to fly among my feathers across the entire ocean? 🦉
🙃 Me gusta más esta idea.
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Same is the case with many countries. Pakistan always been in a struggling phase. There is so much to visit in Pakistan and to explore but tourism sector over here is fragile. Wars are going on and silence can be observed on every side. I cried over it.
I imagine... well no. I don't know. One has to live through it. I'm so sorry, my dear friend. 😔
Good morning @nanixxx, even in discouragement, you always show beauty, that rainbow..., thank you.
Have a nice weekend.
I waited for you. Good morning. 😃 I'm going to sleep now.
(It's the impact of the supermoon, Enraizar 🙂) - but I'm well and manifesting.
(espero que estés descansando y juntando fuerzas para terminar el año)
I know you are well, and thank you for waiting. I hope you have sweet dreams... See you later 😊 👋
I woke up very early with a nice feeling... good dreams. I've been hanging around sunbathing. Thank you. Nice weekend to you.
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Oh i hear you on politics Amiga. There's pros and cons to whoever gets elected. Let's go to a furnished deserted island (is there one?) where politics don't touch, jaja.
There are always pros and cons to everything, but this country has everything going against it, it seems. I don't usually deal with political issues anyway, I was just looking at pictures, remembering and thinking about how times have changed in terms of the things I was looking at then and now. And I am against war and unconstructive discussions, I prefer peace and love.
There is no such thing hahaha... Well yes, each one of us can build an island within ourselves, choosing what we want to look at and what we don't want to look at.
A big hug, Amigo. And thanks for stopping by. 😉
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