Sunday in Havana

Because the ship wasn't sailing until this evening we woke up no more than a couple of miles from the hotel. After breakfast and some time spent trying unsuccessfully to get online we went ashore again. We had a trip to the seaside village of Cojimar in a 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster, sadly now with a Mitsubishi 4-cylinder diesel instead of the original silky Chevy stovebolt six.





This is a monument to Hemingway who frequented and went fishing from Cojimar.





We went back on board for lunch then in the afternoon we went back through customs and immigration to go to the Museum of Rum. This was just a short walk and was notable for a fantastic model of a sugar mill, complete with a model railway.



After this we hung around watching the old cars and the Cubans. David got ticked off by a policeman for sitting on sea wall.
The next couple of hours were pretty active with customs, passport check, embarkation formalities and safety briefing. We cast off around 7pm and watched the sails being hoisted. We were under sail until some time in the morning when they had to hoist the 'iron jib' which sounded as though it was in our cabin!

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