Holguin
12 April 2016 | Holguin (Cuba)
Nathalie

It takes about an hour to go to Holguin from marina vita (45km). The road is good but busy. Holguin is the fourth city in Cuba behind, Havana, Santiago de Cuba and Camaguey. We loved to walk around the city center and went from one Public Square to another, linked by pedestrian streets (Parque Peralta, Parque calixto Garcia, parquet Cespedes), we found easily a space to park around parquet Peralta. We were surprised by one thing. Many families just acquired the same exact item: a pressure cooker. We saw them all over the street in Holguin and the day before in the village of Santa Lucia where the sister of the taxi driver had to wait in line for a good 40 minutes in order to get hers. We were not sure if they had to buy it or if it was a government donation for each family but after several attempts of my very limited Spanish, I understood that they actually had to buy it, so it must have just been a huge shipment of the same item and it was a very hot item, I can tell you. I realized later that Cuban’s houses are mostly not equipped with an oven, so a pressure cooker is really useful.