“Globe-trotting literary traveler Sarah Anderson” visits Cuba.
“We went to the Hotel Nacional where we sat in the courtyard drinking mojitos and musing over its famous residents: Buster Keaton. Errol Flynn, Marlon Brando, Winston Churchill and of course Ernest Hemingway whose novel, set in Cuba, The Old Man and the Sea, won him the Nobel prize. The Nacional also hosts one of the famous floorshows – the Parisiens – (the other being Tropicana) – we sat drinking cocktails and watched the energetic dancers dressed in a variety of colourful clothes and feathers.” – from “You Haven’t Been to Cuba Yet?” by Sarah Anderson, The Times