We assemble on a red Lada

The son of my friend Antoinette, David, lived for a few years, here in Italy, with a Cuban girl, Wanda. They both work in the restaurant mas business, mas and once a year, in winter, come to visit her family mas who live in Havana.
The parents of Wanda had repeatedly invited the parents of David in Cuba. Since my friend and her husband have a family, they can hardly mas leave their jobs either, especially in winter, for several days, and she was eager to know the "superlative", he asked me if I would please take her! I do not have jumped at the chance because it's not often be housed in a local family for a few days and share the way of life of a people so different from us, and then we started immediately looking for a flight (it was August) by choosing as the period December 1 to 9, when even the two "young" would be there.
We found a direct flight mas with Blue Panorama from Milan Malpensa to Havana at the price of 663.00 departing Sundays on December 1 and the return of Monday 9 We bought a tourist visa and health insurance through the site www.cubacenter .com at a price of 65.00 each. When we booked the flight, the departure was scheduled mas in the morning, so we booked a night at the hotel Bernina, near the central station, for 64.50 through booking.com, and bought tickets for a total price of Frecciarossa to / r of 76.00 (for both).
A few days before departure with an e-mail we have been advised that the flight would be delayed to early afternoon, patiently ... now the cheap tickets to rebook the train are not there and then we sleep in Milan.
We each brought a bag of 20 kg. to be put in the hold and hand luggage (in ns. event a backpack) up to 5 kg. We put our. summer dresses and sandals in backpacks, suitcases ... almost exclusively while in the food: the parmesan to chocolate, jam, cake, coffee, biscuits, pesto, dried fruit, soap, toothpaste, mas even for sweets and yeast for making pizza, hoping to have no problems at customs!
After a delay of 2 hours and after a quiet trip even if not very comfortable, given the limited space available, we finally landed mas at the airport Jose Marti in Havana at 20.20 hours local (6 hours behind us) .
We passed through customs and baggage claim and the exit fast enough we were getting David, Wanda and Enzo, his brother, who in the days following there will often be a taxi driver and guide.
We assemble on a red Lada "dated" (kind model FIAT 125) and during the journey we realize that the streets there is no advertising and are attracted to older cars (Pontiac, Dodge, Chevrolet, Chrysler) left by foreigners mas in escape after the revolution of 59 whizzing mas on the road. Some are real clunkers, others are shiny and well kept. David tells us that these cars attract a lot of foreigners, and are almost all converted into taxi (although here in Cuba every car is a potential taxi)
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