Long trip to Cuba

We took the night train at. 22:58 to Kastrup airport where we spent the night at check-in counters along with all the other travelers who also were early away by plane. It was a cold night in the airport, which saved on the heat. At 8:45 we flew out with SAS to Madrid. From there we flew on with AirEuropa to Havana in Cuba. A journey that took 10 hours and 45 minutes. It was a long journey, but at. 20:05 we were promoting in Havana, where it took quite a long time to get luggage. In contrast, it took not long before we had exchanged money, found a taxi and was heading to a Casa Particulara. There are two currencies in Cuba. There are "Peso Cubano" as the local user, and "Cuban Convertible (CUC), which tourists can exchange for. 1 Peso = 0.21 DKK. 1 Convertible = 5.10 DKK. Cuba is very cheap for the locals, who mainly only use Pesos. Convertible has arisen to earn more from tourists - Cuba is still a very cheap country. Cuba has similar courses anywhere. The price at the airport and the bank is the same. Remember to pay attention if you veklser on the street. Many have been fuppet to confuse and CUB CUC. As a main rule it is not a good idea to take USD, since Cuba has imposed additional exchange fee of this currency - as punishment against Americans. It is better to take the Euro. Nowadays it is also possible in many places to raise money on VISA cards. Casa Particulara is Cubans bid for Bed & Breakfast. Its cheaper to stay with the locals, who often rents rooms out to earn some extra money. Its hard to make money in Cuba, which is communist, and how everyone should be equally - or even a little. The standard at Casa Particulara is often much higher than on the cheap hotels. Often the family also makes food for you. Casa Particulara be approved before they may rent rooms. Therefore, all have a small sign hanging on the door indicating that they have approval, so you can safely enter. Our taxi from the airport got us been worried because they claimed that Havana was a dangerous city and districts of Downtown and Vieja was also dangerous. The Casa Particulara we had anbealet the airport was especially in a dangerous area. It is difficult to know exactly who and had you can rely on when not even have been in this country why we redirected taxi to a place that Lonely Planet recommended Casa de Pepe & Rafaela. We had not selected in the first game because we did not show whether one could troop up unannounced at night. They were "fullybooked" which often happens with most Casa has only two rooms to rent. Pepe and Rafaela anfalede us another place and assured us that this neighborhood was not dangerous. There is rarely dangerous attacks in Cuba - in most cases is merely pocket thefts. It soon proved that if a Casa is busy, so know the owner ALWAYS somewhere else, who also rents out rooms. So you rarely vain: O) Since Castro came to power, solved his problem of housing shortages to "take" the big millionaire villas, as colonial power had built, which only lived a family and split the house in small apartments, so now might be room for 17 families. Since Castro came to power, there has been much focus on maintenance, so the old colonial houses now stand and blunting - some are allerde fallen completely together. Districts of Downtown and Vieja is very taken by salt winds and hurricanes, but today the Restoration of several buildings in Vieja started with help from UNESCO.