Friday 29th of June. Hello friends. Now I am already five days here in Cuba. As usual, entering Cuba was very easy. I only needed my European Pet Passport indicating my rabies vaccination dates. That’s all. I also have a paper from the cuban embassy autorizing me to travel to Cuba as a vaccinated and healthy pet. The vet on the airport never looked at it, but it is definitly better to have it.We came to Cuba from Amsterdam with KLM flight 723.
My owners booked an economy comfort seat, a good choice. Enough space for me to sleep and enough leg space for my owner. The meal he got was good as I also got the chance to check it.In Cuba, I am still not allowed in hotels, but as we stay in my cuban family’s house, that’s no problem for me. If you want to come to Cuba and have no family here, it is important to know that you have to stay in a Casa Particular (private owners that rent rooms) that allows pets. As I mentionned before, hotels are still a no go. Many private restaurants allow pets. We went to the Marea Restaurant in Santa Fe in western Havana and I had no problem to go there with my owners.
Taking a Taxi also is also mostly not a problem for me. Depends on the driver, but they mostly are very pet friendly (or propina (=tip) hungry).In a few days we will go to the beach at the playas del Este. And of course I will tell you about my trip to the beach. So stay tuned to get updates!Sunday 1st of July. Today we went to Old Havana making some sightseeing. We first drove with a taxi near to the cathedral, then we went to the Plaza Vieja, where we first had a good cafe, saw Spain loose against Russia in the penalty-shooting in the 1/8-Finals of the WCh2018 in Russia, and then, went upstairs to the bar «Azucar» where we had a realy good meal with some very nice drinks. A place to go!
After the drinks, we went back to the cathedral, where we finaly took a taxi back home. I realy like to walk down the small paved streets of old Havana, leave some doggy-whatsapp-messages (the ones lifting one of the back legs) on the corners of the houses or the plants decorating the streets. There are a lot of stray dogs there, but most of them are like all the Cubans, nice and welcoming strangers, and realy not agressif. But you always have to watch out and be careful. Tuesday 3rd of July. So yesterday we have been to the beach at the Playas del Este, some 20km (some 12,5miles) eastern of Havana. There was no problem for me to stay on the beach. We had to pay 14CUC for two deckchairs and a parasol ⛱. I even got into the water, but was full of sand after.
Fortunately, my owners anticipated this situation and they had a bottle full of water to clean me after my seabath. Having the nose full of sand is not so great. After being cleaned, I took a long nap, but well protected from the sun on a nice shady spot on the deckchair inbetween my owners legs.
This was fine until my eyes cached a crab walking by. My curiosity was bigger then everything and I immediately jumped down to the sand to catch the crab. It scared me a lot when the crab suddenly stood on his back legs and opened its claws. I jumped directly back on the deckchair.
After a few hours on the beach, we drove back to Havana. We went to old Havana to the paladar «Jama», where we had an excellent meal. They even gave me some chicken with boniato puree. When we arrived home my owners gave my a shower to get rid of the last sandcorns and after that I took a nap on the floor beneath the ceiling fan.
