# Ask the Canuck who went to Cuba as a tourist last Christmas. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canuck-who-went-to-cuba-as-a-tourist-last-christmas/718240 "2015-04-22T00:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canuck-who-went-to-cuba-as-a-tourist-last-christmas/718240/21 "2015-04-24T04:52:34Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Just go to Calgary and buy some. It’s not like they’re embargoed or anything. 🙂 True enough. 😃 Thanks for the answers to my questions, and the other information that you’ve posted! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canuck-who-went-to-cuba-as-a-tourist-last-christmas/718240/22 "2015-04-24T15:06:25Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Your trip sounds a lot like my honeymoon in Jamaica. The resort was very nice, but you had to drive past mile after mile of impoverished shanty towns to get there, and my overall impression of the country was fairly depressing. We went on some tours, which of course ended with us being shuffled past booths selling tourist-oriented crappola. I really have no interest in going back there. I don’t think I’d go again for the resort, but I think it might be interesting to go to Havana for a week, and then perhaps tour in the country somewhat. Havana has a lot of museums and other cultural activities, like music, that I would enjoy exploring on a free-range tourist basis. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canuck-who-went-to-cuba-as-a-tourist-last-christmas/718240/23 "2015-04-24T15:09:45Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Did you eat any street food, and if so, what was it? What did you drink (if you drink)? Just realised that I didn’t mention the coconut drinks. At the shopping mall in Havana, one of the stands provided rum based coconut drinks. The vendor had a stack of coconuts, used a machete to cut off the top, poured some rum into the coconut milk, added a couple of straws, and bob’s your uncle - rum and fresh coconut milk in its original container! ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canuck-who-went-to-cuba-as-a-tourist-last-christmas/718240/24 "2015-04-24T22:42:35Z")
> [@X.L.Lent](#): > > Did you get to talk with any of the locals? Did they tell you what it was like > to live in Cuba or what they thought the future might be like with the USA > re-establishing relations with their country? Can’t speak for Piper, but when I went (2014), the questions that got posed to the locals, were more or less deflected. Most of the time, they wanted to hear about your stories about, your home town, your local baseball team and stuff like that. Usually they gave a safe answer and would expect you to drop the subject, individual Cubans might or might not give a more frank appraisal. Declan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canuck-who-went-to-cuba-as-a-tourist-last-christmas/718240.md?page=1)