| Cuban singing group opens the conference. Almost like the Tangata Whenua singing a Waiata in Aotearoa. |
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Delivering my paper (photo courtesy of Waldamiro Vergueiro of the Universidade de Sao Paulo) |
| Bike parking attendent and friend at the Convention Centre. Every Cuban organisation seems to have a well organised bike park like this, where I left my bike every day after commuting out from Vedado in the centre of Havana |
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Salesman demonstrates a papier-mache camera in the Vedado market |
| Boy rollerblades away from an ice cream stall in Vedado. Cuban icecream is good, but generally costs dollars, and is probably made from NZ milk powder. |
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House band at La Republica Cafe in Old Havana |
| Outside the public library in Regla, across Havana Harbour. |
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Fruit seller in Baracoa, a fishing village west of Havana |
| Puncture repairer (every Cuban town has one), using a vulcanising press constructed from an electric iron to repair one of my tubes. |
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Baracoa fishing boats |
| Fidel overlooks the highway to Mariel |
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African traditional dance at a Saturday night town concert, Bahia Honda |
| My host Enrique farewells me from the home I stayed in at Bahia Honda |
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Sunset at Cayo Levisa |
| 50's Buick in La Palma |
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On the roof of the Hotel Jazmines, Viñales |
| Painting on a hut at a recreation of an escaped slave camp, Viñales |
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Painters on ropes touch up Leovigildo González Morillo's Prehistoric mural, Viñales |
| Schoolchildren, Viñales |
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Tobacco farmers, Viñales |
| Hotel Jazmines, Viñales |
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Garden follies at the Cabañas Aguas Claras, outside Piñar del Río city. |
| Art gallery wall, Piñar del Río city |
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Bringing the spare bike home from the repair shop, Candelaria |
| Detail from the wall of the Castillo de la Nubes, a villa on a jungle hill above Soroa |
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With the 130Kph winds of Hurricane Irene approaching, I put my bike on the roof of a taxi, and headed for Havana |
| Hurricane damage on La Rampa in Vedado |
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Waves wash over the Malecon as Irene heads for Florida |
| Collapsed building in Central Havana after the hurricane |
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