The Nodas family portrait!

 A little bit outside central Viñales, Cuba there are three houses in a row. This is the Nodas territory.  Not much earthly possessions but lots of warmth..  I think it shows in the faces!

Read more about the Nodas. Click tag “Noda clan”

Smoke gets in your eyes 4!

Pedro Noda, my old fishing buddy from Viñales,Cuba enjoying the last fragment of his home-made cigar.

Read more about Pedro

Smoke gets in your eyes 3!

This guy was a cigar smoker and an ambitious man. Before heading the National bank and working as industrial minister, he won the Cuban revolution!  He also tried to create the “New Man”

Administrating the revolutionary ideas was not as successful though, as the actual winning the battles. Sixty years after  “la victoria” the cuban industry and economy is not in a particularly victorious state!

Anyway if you are leading the National Bank you have the privilege to put your photo on the bank notes and sign them… “Che Guevara”

Smoke gets in your eyes 2!

A tobacco farmer in Pinar del Rio, Cuba taking a brake contemplating his efforts with the fragil tobacco plants. This is the origin for the Cohibas, Partagas, Monte Cristo and so on. Only the best!

Reds!

 

I have had green and blue themes. So lets play with red this time.

Asere que bola?

The title of one of the songs we heard last night at the Nefertiti concert in Gothenburg  (In Cuba meaning “hey buddy, what´s going on”) LILY D OVIEDO Y SU SONORA CLASICA   Really first class Cuban Salsa!

Afterwards music by DJ “La Gallina” Ann Marie. Her selection always makes your legs move towards the dance floor!

 

Canon Powershot S-100 at 3200 iso.. it works for the web!