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We take a day Tour into Havana and take in a Night Club<\/p>\n
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On our way to Havana<\/p>\n
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Katie and Jimmy on the bus to Havana<\/p>\n
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In the lobby of our hotel there was a tour operator who was available for a few hours each day and we could book trips. We only had a few days so we booked two of them. The one was a day on the water in a catamaran which I have written about earlier. The other was a day in Havana. Well, we had come a long way to miss this city we have heard so much about all our lives.<\/p>\n
It was to be along day. We started out early in the morning for our 2 hour trip to the capital and we were to have lunch and supper in town and then go to a floor show. We were not expecting to get back before about three in the morning!<\/p>\n
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Our first stop in Town.<\/p>\n
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Susan by the fountain in Plaza de San Francisco<\/p>\n
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Fray Jun\u00edpero Serra<\/a> with Juane\u00f1o<\/a> Indian boy<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column_inner type=”4_4″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Our first stop was the Plaza di San Francesco which was in the center of the oldest part of Havana. The basilica and monastery of Saint FRancis was built around 1590 and somewhat altered in 1730. It is no longer used for worship but as a community center.<\/p>\n Today a statue of Fray Jun\u00edpero Serra<\/a> with Juane\u00f1o<\/a> Indian boy stands next to the basilica.<\/p>\n Our next stop was the Plaza Vieja or Old Square. The plaza was originally called Plaza Nueva<\/i> (New Square). It emerged as an open space in 1559, after the Plaza de Armas and Plaza San Francisco. Plaza Vieja was the site of executions, processions, bullfights,\u00a0and fiestas\u00a0– all witnessed by Havana’s wealthiest citizens, who looked on from their balconies.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_3″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/flynngraphics.ca\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_8263.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Our Second Stop<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_3″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/flynngraphics.ca\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_8265.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Susan in the Plaza Vieja<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_3″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/flynngraphics.ca\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_8266.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n The two of us in the Plaza<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column_inner type=”4_4″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/flynngraphics.ca\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_8283.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Walking to the Plaza de Armas we came across these street musicians.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=”Sidebar” 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src=”https:\/\/flynngraphics.ca\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_8310.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n \u00a0El Templete<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/flynngraphics.ca\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_8291.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” 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Close to the Templete, there is a column which replaces a silk-cotton tree, under which the first mass and the first Council of Havana were celebrated.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/flynngraphics.ca\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_8309.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Susan, Jimmy and Katie in the Plaza de Armas<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” 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