The first draft of this post began with a torrent of swearing. I missed my flight back to London tonight (Sunday) and there is not another one until Thursday. This is either the result of the wear and tear on my hearing as a result of decades of loud music or the clerk’s inability to clearly pronounce “half” and “five”. Maybe a bit of both. Bollocks!

Your correspondent is back in Havana for an extra 4 nights when he desperately wants to be back in his Bethnal Green fastness. What a damned imbecile.

LampThis hotel is quite a treat. The bathroom light wasn’t working work. This is probably just as well because it means that you can’t see the floor. Its been fixed now but the man said not to open the bathroom cabinet because it’s supporting the plastic light covering. There are footprints on the bedroom wall and the floor has a deeply ingrained grime all around the edges of the walls. The room, and much of the hotel looks like it was painted by people with very poor hand eye co-ordination with frequent involuntary spasms in their arms.

Breakfast has that early morning favourite of dodgy looking crabsticks and last night´s spaghetti. Though the fruit was pretty good.

Next time you change your flight ask for written confirmation.

8 responses to “Longer than expected”

  1. But will you get an interview with Fidel …?

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  2. No. But I´ve got a 20 minute video interview with
    Celia Hart which I´ll put up over the weekend if I don´t miss my flight again.

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  3. that should be interesting, interview with Celia

    why is it you always manage to get into trouble in your foreign trips?

    good luck!

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  4. I like your blog, I hope you will visit mine ‘An Unrepentant Communist’
    http://unrepentantcommunist.blogspot.com/

    Good Luck

    Gabriel

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  5. Welcome back to London, I hope! Looking forward to the interview.

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  6. What a bunch of nonsense whingeing! I would’ve thought the opportunity to see another part of the world would outweigh mouldy pillow and broken lights! Give me a break comrade. If you want European style luxury go on holiday to Spain and stay in a 5 star hotel!

    Why not tell us something interesting about the culture, the people and the politics – the three things that struck me the most the times that I was fortunate enough to go.

    You sound like a spoiled tourist instead of a political activist or even for that matter someone who is interested in another culture! I’ll give you even more of a bollocking when I meet you next for pints so be prepared…..

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  7. I agree with Tami – this is Menshevic nonsense. If ever you have to leave Bethnal Green to fight a guerrilla war in the wilds of Surrey you’ll be stuffed.

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  8. Tami that nice t-shirt we got you as a birthday present might look better on one of my sister’s kids.
    It was very prescient of you.We spent the last two nights in a 5 star.
    If I’d gone to Cuba as part of a labour battalion to re-build the sewers in a mountain village I’d agree with you. Maybe I’ll do that for next year’s summer holidays. The problem, and Raul Castro has identified it too, is that when you plan to make tourism a major part of your hard currency income you have to do it properly. The mass tourist market that the island attracts is not very ideological and surly service and mouldy pillows are not a big draw when you pay more or less the prices that you pay in France or Spain.
    Don’t worry Simon I’ve drawn the lessons of the FI’s guerrilla turn.

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