Baseball trip to Cuba

[ElCabron]

It's worth going even if your trip has nothing to do with baseball or baseball cards. Amazing place with amazing people. When it opens up for real it will change forever. Go now if you can.

-Ryan

[ullmandds]

Nice Ryan...seems everyone just wants to go there and rape the land of it's resources...like the way the white man has ruined parts of Africa!

[bbcard1]

From my limited experience, the cigars are overrated.

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

From my limited experience, the cigars are overrated.

Are you sure it wasn't a reprint?

[baseball tourist]

A's a Canadian once living in Toronto, Cuba has been a very affordable not to mention enjoyable vacation destination for years. I have been over 10 times since the 1980's and have always asked locals and friends if they can locate cards etc. Not much has turned up, not that it was the focus of my trips.

Have been to some great games in Havana and other towns and have had the pleasure of growing a few friendships throughout the country. Friends, especially those that work in the resort hotels tell me that locating baseball items and antiques is a very common request from visiting Canucks.

Don't think that there is much left to find.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

From my limited experience, the cigars are overrated.

From my quite extensive experience, the cigars are far-and-away the finest in the world.

Cheers,
Blair

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by NoizeBringer

It's worth going even if your trip has nothing to do with baseball or baseball cards. Amazing place with amazing people. When it opens up for real it will change forever. Go now if you can.

-Ryan

A big +1 on that!

Cheers,
Blair

[ChiefBenderForever]

Do they have McDonalds ?

[Cerberus]

Yes, they do, Johnny, but they are called "McCastro's." The mascot for the chain is a character named Fidel McCastro, who looks like Ronald McD, but has a beard and wears one of those special Castro hats. The chain's signature item is called the "Big Fidel," which features meat of an unknown origin and, of course, a very special and spicy "secret sauce."

[bobbvc]

Originally Posted by Cerberus

Yes, they do, Johnny, but they are called "McCastro's." The mascot for the chain is a character named Fidel McCastro, who looks like Ronald McD, but has a beard and wears one of those special Castro hats. The chain's signature item is called the "Big Fidel," which features meat of an unknown origin and, of course, a very special and spicy "secret sauce."

That doesn't sound much different than the "real" McDonald's.

[joeadcock]

Would love to go there once it is out of the hands of the current govt.
No way, will I feed it.

[ChiefBenderForever]

Originally Posted by joeadcock

Would love to go there once it is out of the hands of the current govt.
No way, will I feed it.

Half the stuff we buy is from China so what is the difference ? And half the clothes at retailers are from child labor producing plants, many slave labor. Unless you buy only American made only products, which is impossible you are supporting much worse than Cuba. It's just the way of the world, we have no control over any of it. 'Profits' rule the world, government is now secondary and probably always was.