Cuba Trip - Day 7, Havana - Part 2

Day 7 continues with a visit to the Ernest Hemingway Museum. Then, after our final dinner in Cuba, we spent the evening at the FAC, Fabrica de Arte Cubano, a very bizarre place. It is a night club, theater, art gallery and restaurant.

Ernest Hemingway's house sits on top of a big hill overlooking Havana.

We were not allowed into the house but most of the

windows were open so we could  look inside.

 Hemingway's favorite chair sits on the left. The curvature in the seat cushion shows how often he sat there. Look closely and you'll see his collection of liquor bottles sitting on the table between the two chairs.

 The dining room has some of his many hunting trophies on the walls.

On this desk were some of his bullets and awards for his kills.

This was his main library. Almost every room we saw had full bookshelves.

 Hemingway's bedroom.

His closet. He obviously loved wearing boots.

His bathroom. Note the bookshelf next to the toilet

(bottom right) and a bidet sat next to the scales.

This tower was built next to the house mainly to provide

an office with a view. He seldom used it though.

 The tower office.

Hemingway loved to hunt and fish.

 Hemingway's typewriter.

 Me looking into the tower room.

 The view of Havana from the tower.

 Does this tree have enough roots?

Hemingway's boat, the Pilar.

This is the only place in Cuba where the American flag is

allowed to be flown. You can see part of the flag on the far left.

The guest house and garage sits next to his home.

 After enjoying our last dinner in Cuba, we were bused to the FAC
where we spent a few hours listening to the Cuban music from the
night club and exploring the art galleries on the second and third floors.

 The majority of the art on display was "creative" photos of Cubans.

 
 These eleven men are each holding an egg and screaming!

On the floor below the screaming men was this smaller photo
of a group of doctors/surgeons staring at an egg on the floor.
No-one in our group could figure out what this meant.

 Susan thinks this is the Villages Chorus Line of Cuba.

Here is a man wearing dead chickens.

 Here is the same man, now wealthy, with a large
staff of servants, eating a chicken dinner.

This mural was made from CD cases.

 We then entered the "adult area". These 4 photos are of
people kissing with a prophylactic between their lips.

 
 
This 30+/- foot long mural is a study of mature female body shapes.

 
This sculpture of Cuba was made entirely from old keys.
The keys surrounding the island depicts the Cubans who deserted Cuba.

A picture of a man checking the time (6:29) hanging
next to a picture of a man checking the time (6:29).