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My Havana Trip-Part Two

About a month ago I took a mini weekend getaway to Havana with my husband (love the sound of that) and I wrote a post about the first part of our trip so here is part two 🙂

The one thing about Havana that I absolutely LOVE is the architecture. So many different styles like Colonial, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Eclectic, Modernism, Revolutionary and Contemporary can be seen at every turn. Below is a collection of some of those buildings.

Havana

Havana

Havana

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Havana

Very cool Signage

Havana

Havana

I LOVE this boat restaurant!

Havana

This reminds me of New Orleans

Havana

I love the sign and this place was pretty cool. NOT old but very new but I like how they are keeping with the styles around them.

Havana

Havana

The Bacardi building-a Art Deco landmark….my fav! I love Art Deco! Next time I’m in Havana I will visit this building up close.

Havana, Cuba

Havana

Havana

After a long day of sightseeing it was time for a Bucanero Beer and some music at “Café Paris” on Obispo street.

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Me getting all fancy pants with my iPhone 🙂 Like that huh? lol

Havana

After drinks we wanted to relax so we headed back to our hotel to lounge by the pool under the non existent sun 🙁 BUT it was still warm so that was good at least and the pool area was very enjoyable. They had the comfiest lounge chairs…ever.

Havana, Cuba

Relaxing time done, now off to find some dinner. On our way we ran into some interesting sites. Like these guys playing a very concentrated game of Chess.

Havana

Then we passed the CREEPIEST Hotel…ever! Would you stay at a hotel with these guys greeting you every time you walked in (the other one is on the bench)? They are apparently Monks but scary monks is all I have to say.

Havana

Dinner. We found this wonderful spot which turned out to be in an old printing press building. Dinner was very good and we will back for sure.

Havana

I love that this looks like the stairs go nowhere

Havana, Cuba

After dinner it’s back to wander the street and a night cap at our favorite brewery before calling it a night.

Havana, Cuba

This little girl was super intrigued with the musicians and kept asking them all these questions about the instruments.

Havana, Cuba

I will leave you with two pictures of some cool vintage cars and one silly picture of me 🙂

Havana, Cuba

Havana, Cuba

I look not so great here, but this picture makes me laugh every time 🙂

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Liz

Toronto’s Vintage and Retro Society’s “Tiki-Tacky Patio Party”

Toronto Vintage and Retro Society

I’m part of this super cool Facebook Group called the “Toronto Vintage and Retro Society” that was created by my friend “Jacquie”. Its a place to post Toronto (GTA) events, photos, shops and shows that celebrate the vintage/retro lifestyle.

The page has grown to over a 1000 fans in just a short while so Jacquie decided that she needed to throw a party to say thank you to all her fans, so with my help and several other members of the group I bring you our first “Tiki-Tacky Patio Party” at the Cadillac Lounge, right here in Toronto August 3rd (4-8pm) with the cool surf band “Luau or die“.

The Band is not the only fun thing we have planned, thanks to all the super cool sponsors for the event, and they are:

We have awesome raffle prizes, photo booth, burlesque, live band, vintage vendors etc. etc.. You can’t go wrong on a Saturday Afternoon/Early Evening by joining us 🙂

So if you live in Toronto I hope you can join us at the Cadillac Lounge!

Liz 🙂