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The cuisine in Cuba is, well, pretty mediocre. Actually, that's being kind.
However, there are a few really excellent restaurants in Havana if you want to hunt them down. Probably my favourite was La Guarida as much for the location as the cuisine itself.
We weren't sure how easy it would be to reserve a table so we walked down to the building at midday to try to book. At first, it was not clear where this restaurant was, but we finally found it in a non-descript building in a shoddy street in Havana (much of Havana looks and feels shoddy but don't let that put you off!).
On the ground floor was the entrance to a seemingly derelict building - but much of Havana is like that. Walk past the mural of Fidel Castro on the ground floor and head on up the stairs to the first floor. There is little indication that another level up is a fantastic restaurant - apart from the tell-tale signs of linen tablecloths being hung out to dry in the tropical midday heat.
The paint was peeling off the walls on the first floor (there is no paint on the ground floor apart from Fidel's mural) but the immediate impression - with the tropical sunlight streaming in through the window openings - is one of beautiful decaying elegance.
One floor above is the actual restaurant itself but I was captivated by this first floor scene which seemed to sum up Cuba in a single photograph.
Yes. I got i brainwave today! I got my new internet connection working! I had KPN they promised me 20MBp real was 13 MBp. Know i got ZIGGO. Promised 30 MBp. Real speed 28,5 MBp. It was my own fault that i could not connect. Bad reading, i need glasses (LOL). So i am back! Goodbye KPN!
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
Me only cruel immortality
Consumes; I wither slowly in thine arms,
Here at the quiet limit of the world,
A white-hair’d shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the East,
Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn.
Tennyson
The vegetation growing on the roof is not a good sign. It looks like this was a nice little building at one time. That looks like a walk up service window on the front side. Maybe the place was an eatery at one time ?
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The Gisborne wool store. long gone are the glory days of wool exports from Tokomaru Bay, slowly being reclaimed by decay and the elements. A very interesting place to walk around.
instead of wilting , with petals falling off as other aging cut flowers do, the hyacinth flowers started to become translucent and gelatinous and slimy with age! I had not seen this before, but then i've only had hyacinths growing in pots previously, not as cut flowers in a vase
"Earth has waited for them,
All the time of their growth
Fretting for their decay:
Now she has them at last."
- Isaac Rosenberg
“Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.”
- Iwan Goll
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When I've started to work on this composition I came up with two versions of "Decay", and first looked like the beginning of decay process, second - like the end of it... I've decided to post both versions - so you can compare this one with previous image "Decay - Beginning" and be the judges, my friends...!
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