Cuba libre – ein Reisebericht
Im englischen Guardian ist heute ein stimmungsvoller Kuba-Reisebericht erschienen. Ein Auszug:
A road trip in Cuba is like no other. It is unpredictable, other worldly, time warped, thought provoking, strangely glamorous, exotic and properly edgy. Stop for a pee at the roadside and you might see the fat back end of a slothful tree rat asleep in the bending bough of a palm or spot an iguana lolloping across the scrub. At every hot and crumbly junction there are plaintive clusters of hopeful and tirelessly ambitious, long-distance hitchhikers (numbering 20 or 30 on any one corner sometimes). Ask a local for the nearest petrol station and before he directs you he’ll offer you the dodgy alternative of black-market fuel.
Hitching and hooky gasoline are not considered particularly déclassé, criminal or bohemian here but more often than not the only way to travel, just part of the daily slog for survival that Cubans call «La Lucha» – The Fight.
