We are back. The vacation was great! It was the first one, real, within 12 years. It gave us that chance to be ourselves, enjoy very normal and regular things - each other, food, drinks, sun, water, fresh air... What else, if you think about it? We didn't see people texting, but talking, laughing, enjoying coffee and a quiet moment. I had a thought that all this will be taken away from us if we keep obsessing about updating our " means of communication". I am afraid the damage is done already. Our kids cannot enjoy nature as it is. The only shade of blue they know - it's "monitor blue", they have 400 friends on facebook and nobody to go to movies together....Sad.
So we enjoyed it all! But it was a resort, it's supposed to be enjoyable. And it's most of the time very impersonal - Dominican Republic, Cancun, Jamaica... What about Cuba?My feelings? The only taste of real Cuba I had - taste of Havana. Impression? Very mixed. I wish I could be there, on the streets, in the evening. See people coming from work, shopping on there way home. I would like to eat their food, listen to their conversations, to know weather thy are happy with life they chose to have, to understand... The architecture is beyond believe! I was in Vienna, in Barcelona, in Warsaw and St .Petersbourg. I saw old buildings and old parts of cities. It's different.
Time stopped in Havana.I felt myself too much of a tourist with a camera! It was almost not real, like coming back in time. I think I couldn't concentrate on architecture, see beauty of it, because people around were so poor, asking for money. No they didn't beg. They wanted to do smth. for you - to show the way, to sing a song, to pose for a picture... The guide didn't talk about people's life, their needs.... Knowing communist system I didn't want to ask...I was lost in feelings. I was proud that they were free and independent, but seeing how much they were behind felt so bad. That's why I did really well with the pictures of the ocean, trees, pelicans.... And had in mind street photography, smth. I could show if not to the world, to my friends.... It didn't happen....
I am not sure, what pictures to upload. I have to look through them once again....
