{"id":4538,"date":"2013-03-24T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T09:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2013-03-24T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T09:49:32","slug":"havana-opening-night-of-the-festival-at-el-morro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/startseite\/havana-opening-night-of-the-festival-at-el-morro\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana – Opening Night Of The Festival At El Morro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I wouldn’t go as far as to comment that it was a great and expensive opportunity to feel important and shake hands with all the important players while supporting Cubans with a good dinner … but the comment comes to my mind.<\/p>\n
Great photo op too.<\/p>\n
From the drive into El Morro in an old and battered Moksvitch reeking of bad diesel and stuttering its way through the tunnel while looking out a shattered front window to the stunning view of Havana harbour and the Malecon from atop the fortress.<\/p>\n
A pleasant moment was meeting Barry, a fan of my blog, and talking to him amid the crowd.<\/p>\n
Frank and I considered ourselves happy to have had a good lunch and not needing anything to eat as all we saw were long lines and Cuban groupies helping themselves.<\/p>\n
No problem with that, just annoying to be barked at by the clowns playing soldiers while they were eating away happily from the buffet before dinner had started.<\/p>\n
We strolled around and found a quiet, wind-still corner to smoke our cigars and a nice waitress for our Cubatas while meeting and greeting our friends and the many usual suspects.<\/p>\n
I thought Frank would be overwhelmed by the event. Nope. He enjoyed the cannons though.<\/p>\n
In the end we looked at each other and agreed that those had been very expensive Cubatas.<\/p>\n
Nino<\/p>\n
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I wouldn’t go as far as to comment that it was a great and expensive opportunity to feel important and shake hands with all the important players while supporting Cubans with a good dinner … but the comment comes to my mind. Great photo op too. From the drive into El Morro in an Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,1,5],"tags":[21,1176,860,142,33,88,859],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}