YES, YOU CAN TRAVEL OPENLY, FREELY and INDEPENDENTLY in CUBA!Cuba, The Forbidden Island Revisited is loaded with the tips that will make your journey easy and enjoyable!Why were American's forbidden the right to travel in Cuba in 2005? Pat & Cat returned in 2018 to reconnect with friends and observe changes. There were many and some very striking! Pat and Cat Patterson have ridden their bicycles around the world a time or two! They've seen a thing or two that has shaped their thinking regarding people, places, cultures customs and governments. It's impossible to visit Cuba without being swept up into the details of the Cuban Revolution. The Patterson's curiosity was piqued while cycling through Africa. Why were young guys there wearing T-shirts with Che Guevara's iconic photo on them? Why were there posters featuring him? Why was Che's image so well known? Even eclipsing that of Fidel Castro, Cuba's long time leader.Should you visit Cuba? No matter what part of the world you come from, if you don't travel there soon the flavor of post revolutionary Cuba may be lost forever. Experience the intoxicating music and mojitos, flavors of authentic food, classic cars and the friendly, happy people.Havana is a short 90 miles from Florida, a quick one hour flight and a step back into the past. Cuba is as interesting as many European tours. DON'T MISS OUT. It's safe, easy and an amazing experience!Don't forget to slip a copy of Cuba, The Forbidden Island Revisited into your backpack, panniers or suitcase!

For more than 50 years, the U.S. government and news media have misrepresented the truth about Cuba. This book brings together a fascinating array of fats and anecdotes about Cuba, its government,its people, and the actions the United States has taken against the ell-being of those people. Presented in an encyclopedic format.

Carlos Frías, an award-winning journalist and the American-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing about his parents' homeland only in parables. Their Cuba, the one they left behind four decades ago, was ethereal. It existed, for him, only in their anecdotes, and in the family that remained in Cuba -- merely ghosts on the other end of a telephone. Until Fidel Castro fell ill. Sent to Cuba by his newspaper as the country began closing to foreign journalists in August 2006, Frías begins the secret journey of a lifetime -- twelve days in the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, spectacular, and unforgettable memoir. Take Me With You is written through the unique eyes of a first-generation Cuban-American seeing the forbidden country of his ancestry for the first time. Take Me With You provides a fresh view of Cuba, devoid of overt political commentary, focusing instead on the gritty, tangible lives of the people living in Castro's Cuba. Frías takes in the island nation of today and attempts to reconstruct what the past was like for his parents, retracing their footsteps, searching for his roots, and discovering his history. The book creates lasting and unexpected ripples within his family on both sides of the Florida Straits -- and on the author himself.

Island of the White Rose is a love story set amid the Cuban revolution. It is a novel of adventure and intrigue, of armed struggle and forbidden love, at the time Castro was on the cusp of victory. It weaves fiction into the historical record to flesh out the lives and loves of upper-middle-class Cubans who fought courageously in the Havana underground, many only to reap disillusionment after Castro took power.

Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba as they trek into the hills and coasts as a family, camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars and relishing in Cuban hospitality.