By Jeremy Eaton, CBC News Posted: May 10, 2015 8:00 PM NT Last Updated: May 10, 2015 8:00 PM NT
[Author’s note: I hate most travel writing. I’ve crossed Russia on a train, gotten drunk in Mongolia, lived in Italy, been held at the Laos-Vietnam border for a number of hours and not a word of those misadventures is published on the Interwebs. But this is almost newsworthy … almost.]
To escape the wrath of another hellish winter, my partner and I fled the west coast of Newfoundland for a break in Cuba. Having never been, I wanted to take it all in before the Americans return.
As officials in both the United States and Cuba work out the details on ending the embargo, keeping folks living in the Home of the Brave out of the little Caribbean country for now, a million Canadians a year flock to the home of Castro, cigars and Cuban rum.
From the moment you get on the bus that takes you to your piece of purchased paradise, the love of Cubans for Canadians is real.
