Jennifer Bain

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1 week ago | openjaw.com | Jennifer Bain

Whipping down the Malecón in a Barbie pink convertible 1955 Chevrolet, past people strolling along the seaside esplanade, Havana feels for a moment just like it did during my last visit just prior to the pandemic. But truthfully much has changed. Vintage car owner Julio Moret admits that business is slow when he agrees to take me to my hotel since he’s not busy doing city tours. Just 2.2 million people visited Cuba in 2024, down from 2.6 million the year before and 4.2 million in 2019.

1 week ago | nationalparkstraveler.org | Jennifer Bain

Love was definitely in the air on Isabela Island and we yearned to become voyeurs. Creeping along a dirt path at the base of a volcano in the rainy season, we inched closer and closer to the sound of rhythmic grunting, hoping to catch sight of giant tortoises copulating in the thick greenery. We had already studied the tracks and poop of the poster child for the Galápagos Islands.

1 week ago | openjaw.com | Jennifer Bain

Cuba has pledged to improve the infrastructure in Varadero in time for next year’s FITCuba fair dedicated to Canada. “As I like to say, Canadians have more friends in Cuba than they do in Canada,” Cuban Tourism Minister Juan Carlos García Granda said at a luncheon at the Royalton Havana Paseo del Prado announcing that Canada would be the guest of honour for next year’s event. “So regardless of what they see in the press and in the media, they know the real situation of Cuba.

2 weeks ago | nationalparkstraveler.org | Jennifer Bain

It’s appropriately uncomfortable when interpretive park ranger Jazmyn Bernard starts chanting “two, four, six, eight — we don’t want to integrate” on Little Rock Nine Way in front of Little Rock Central High School. Without warning, she transports our tour group back to September 1957 when Elizabeth Eckford was one of nine African American teenagers subjected to racist white mobs resisting desegregation. “Get outta here. Go to your own school. I’ll kill you if you come to my school.