Havana

Some corrections:

Item: Cubanas pay $10 to get into Club Rio.

Most likely:

Cubanas pay $2 to get into Johny´s - ut you as the stupid tourist in one of the more mercenary hard core ho Havana hangouts will get charged the "stupid tourist" price. Expect to pay no less than $50, probably for a quickie. Of course, YMMV. Youth, looks and Spanish ( and combos thereof) can negate what I wrote above.


Item: Rodeo full of non pros.

Umm....

Most likely:

Yes, there are many non pros to be found but those won`t be interested in your old tourist ass. The ones that are all fairly regular Havana hookers and I have seen many "old school" faces at Rodeo mingling with tourists.

downunder,

True blonds? I don't recall ever seeing any that were not tourist. Saw some old B&W footage on the tube recently dealing with the Cuban missile crisis. I studied them well and didn't see any blonds among the masses in HAV.
Also saw some short segment (think CNN) on the tube recently about blonds. It said all blonds are originally from the Scandinavian countries. It also said in about 200 years there will be no true blonds in the world because blondness is a recessive gene and as we all know from our 4th grade biology class it takes 2 recessive genes for it to come out in the offspring.
What does this mean? It means you better hurry if you want to find your true blond, you only have 200 years!
My bit of biology for the day.

Peterman

Someone (Scopio) has mentioned that internet is available at Capitolio's cybercafe. Can anyone tell me where Capitolio is?

Thanks.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by AlLostInSpace13
[i]Someone (Scopio) has mentioned that internet is available at Capitolio's cybercafe. Can anyone tell me where Capitolio is?

Thanks. [/i][/QUOTE]

The Capitolo is the Capital building. Can't miss it. Huge building downtown, that looks like the US House of Congress. Near the Inglaterra Hotel. Everyone knows it.

But cybercafe is stretching it. more like a few extremely slow computers that are down as much as they are up. You enter a room, hand over your passport, pick a number and wait and wait with a bunch of backpackers. Only good thing about it is that I met a Swedish girl who fancied my one eyed snake.

Best bet is to use the internet services in the better hotels like the Nacional. Far more expensive - around $10+/hour but worth it in my opinion.

The bearded one is a bit conflicted about the internet. The tourist demand it and Cuban scientific and business community need it to prosper - a good thing.

On the other hand you have unrevolutionary information - free and uncensored - a bad thing.

Downunder: I went to the University (Alma Mater) located calle L a bit higher than Hotel Colina during an afternoon, strolled around in the gardens and also inside the Buildings. Some people (male students) asked me if I were of the student exchange program. There were some cute chicas but I just looked, didn't chase. After class many of them go down Calle L to Coppelia Park for Helado (icecream) as mentioned by El Colorado. I think icecream makes every cuban chica weak.

El Colorado: great report, I should have had it before going to Havana :-)

(After reading the recent posts concerning Emperador, I get more convinced myself that the action there is controlled.)

Regards to all, Scorpio

Regarding blonds in Cuba (and elsewhere in Latin America for that matter)

Seems people forget that many Latins are children of blonde Europeans, which for one reason or another either emigrated or mated during their Latin stays. In the case of Latin America, keep in mind that there are SOME Spanish and Italian blonds, though not many.

In the case of Cuba, I have seen plenty (well, perhaps not plenty, but enough?) natural blondes and it is no BIG surprise??

Almost every blonde Cuban has an Eastern European, typically Russian parent???

or has everyone forgotten the Russian presence there for 30 years?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Catire
[i]Regarding blonds in Cuba (and elsewhere in Latin America for that matter)

Cuba before Castro was a much whiter country. Same could be said of the DR during Trujillo. And if you look at the photos of the Cuban revolution most of the revolutionaries around Castro were white and middle class.

The fact is that the white Cubans had more money than the blacks and were able to leave the country after Castro. If you look at photos of Miami Cubans the vast majority are whites of European origin.

And yes you are correct. For thirty years there were thousands of Russian soldiers and technicians in Cuba, mostly single men, so yes you have the Cuban blond phenomena, sometimes with very exotic looking olive complexions and with Russian names like Sonia but there aren't that many.

Also the people in the east, particularly in Santiago, tend to be darker than in Havana, as that area had more sugar plantations and slavery.

Thanks guys for all the response to my last post. I have a few more questions.

1) Is it possible to have a couple of "kept" women in Cuba ?? A rather wealthy buddy of mine wanted to keep a couple of women down there for himself (pay for their rent, and other expences) and even start a concubine. I said it will never work because the women will never be faithful, especially since he can only visit them 2 or 3 times a year.

2) How does Havana compare to the other great cities of S. America (Bueno Aries, Carcas, etc) in terms of the overall experience (prices, quality of women, food, etc) ???

Thanks

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HEY DOWNUNDER,

> > > > I am PUZZLED as to WHY your friend would even want a "KEPT" woman out of the country in a depressed country where the sex industry is the business of choice and profit.

.... I am very "CURIOUS" .... I know if your friend has a lot of bucks to spend he can have his choice of the best of the BEST.

.... " INQUIRERING MINDS WANT TO .... KNOW " ????



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This is obviously a newbie question, but here it goes anyway: Where can I buy protection in Havana? What is it in Spanish?

Hi AlLostInSpace13,

The obvious thing to do would be to take a good supply with you. If you hook-up with a pro, she will have them.
There is a pharmacy in the Habana Libra Hotel in the shopping mall that you enter on the side of the hotel. There is another one at the Comodoro Hotel located in the bungalows.
Sorry, don't know the spanish word.
I hope this will help to cover things.

Regards,
Peterman

AlLostInSpace13,

The word you are looking for is: Condón or Preservatif.

Easiest places to find such covers, and at least have some selection is at the hotel pharmacies as mentioned by peterman.

I would urge you not to use the local brand ~ unless off course you are looking to have zero sensitivity, in which case you may as well use a bicycle inner tube. Taking your own is the best policy: they are easy to hide from your wife or girlfriend…

Regards, Havanaman

yeah, condon or preservativo.

rubbers available locally are all Chinese.

and JamesBond - your analysis is correct. Ever notice how Miami Cubans are quite "white" , especially comparted to the mother isle?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Catire
[i]yeah, condon or preservativo.

rubbers available locally are all Chinese.

I can tell you from experience that the Chinese condons are incredible. I had a fairly funny horizontal moment, when I complained to my Cuban friend about using the Chinese condons and I insisted in using the American Trojan, so we did a test.

I put my full fist in the Chinese condon and it didn't break. Then I did the same thing with the American trojan and it ripped immediately.

I have to admit that the Chinese condon technology is superior. It's like a tire. Very durable.

Haha, I actually have one in my bag from my last trip to the cuba, the brand I had were called "Twin Lotus" and yep, they were made in China. I would Recommend using instead of the trojans, the extra sensitives hold up real well, better than most extra strength condoms. I packed 2 24 packs on my last trip, sorry to say I still had some left over, I got the local condom as a memento.