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Cuba Scams: What to Expect When Travelling in Cuba
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Cuba Scams: What to Expect When Travelling in Cuba

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Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. Clicking through for additional information or to make a purchase may result in a small commission. Thank you. Cuba is somewhere I had wanted to travel to for a long time and annoyingly, it ended up being one of those trips where everything that could go wrong, did…

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What to Expect When Travelling to Cuba
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What to Expect When Travelling to Cuba

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Whenever I told friends, family and acquaintances alike that I would be heading to Cuba in February of 2016, I tended to get the same reaction, over and over again. Argh, jealous! I really want to go there, before it gets too touristy. I guess I had too, or I wouldn’t have rushed to make…

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A Birthday and a Bug: First Impressions of Havana
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A Birthday and a Bug: First Impressions of Havana

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One of my Dad’s favourite quotes is great expectations lead to great disappointments. He quips this to me often and I usually respond by teasing him about being a pessimist. For example, I wanted to go to Iceland for six years. My parents later told me they’d been worried that it wouldn’t meet my admittedly…

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Planning a Trip to Cuba? Here’s What You Need to Know (Pre-Trip Edition)
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Planning a Trip to Cuba? Here’s What You Need to Know (Pre-Trip Edition)

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Note: There’s an updated version of this post, here. Planning a trip to Cuba has turned into one of the hardest things I’ve had to do over the last few months. As the Caribbean country is relatively new to the Internet, booking things online is generally – a nightmare. We’ve basically been to hell and…

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