This year we decided to spent Christmas and New Year in Cuba. We choose several Melia hotels in Bradero, Cayo Santa Maria (an amazingly beautiful key) and Havana. All five-star resort hotels, all included. We flew by Cubana Airlines (that even if they do not announce it like that it's a low cost carrier, no prior seat reservations, no choices of the (unedible) food. At the time of eating we faced an unexpected problem that we have never considered... Food.

The first problem was lack of. One day you have salads, three days you do not. Next morning whole bread toast that magically dissapeared for the following days. As cuban regulations make it mandatory for international hotels to buy directly, their supply chain is a chaos, hence their instability.

Second, choices. Being an insland and facing the blockade and lack of funds, salads, for example, were scarce everywhere. Fruit selection was veerrryyy short. Ice cream, was, mostly everywhere, softy. No not the Mc.Donalds like machine, irt was softy because it melted...

Third: Forget going on your own. No supermarkets, regulated chains of restaurants, not much choices.

So when we flew to Mexico for a couple of days, all the family wanted was... a good meal.

More on Cuban food in another posting soon...