Up a bit earlier today to head down to the tobacco factory. Another cranking breakfast, i'm not sure how i'll live ithout my eggs and fruit and that wonderful coffee!
Tour in the cigar factory, bit of a cheesy tour but intersting and worth being a proper tourist for. Organised chaos for the different language groups, not sure how they organised it but they did! watched th school for cigars and then the pro's, who despite the pro status were trying to sell off half finished cigars to dennis at every turn. the rolling loooks massively complicated and what a job! but apparently these guys earn more than doctors...or so we were told. a pro has to roll 120 fat ones in a day, they all get quality assured to the max...even pressure tested! funny, but some of the cigars were lik over $200 CUC (£150) each...some even more.
Walked back through the havanians shopping street, found department stores that were almost empty, people have to queue to go into this pen of to root round in clothes. Socialism alive and welll here in Havana. Shoppers have to queue to buy anything and can't pick anything off the shelves themselves. Why is it like this?? I would wikipedia it, but i can't get the internet here..
Weird.
More beer and pizza for dinner! nice to watch the peeps go by over a cold Cristal.
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