Cuban men seldom wear hats. Younger men might wear a baseball cap; older men, if they wear a hat, will wear a straw one. Men also seldom wear shorts, long pants being the way to go, apparently. Men also have the fancy sunglasses as part of their attire.
There appear to be many gay men, quite flamboyant in their sunglasses and hairdoes, with various facial piercings. No particular notice is taken of them by the other men or women.
Girls have amazing nails. Many are clearly artificial, and are so long they can't be at all functional. Patterns on the nails are creative and varied.
Ball games must be places of crime. At our game, there were maybe fifty or sixty armed men, along with a few dogs. ?Why?
Richard and I wondered how long it would take us being here before we were not "touted". Probably quite long: Amed told us of someone he knew of who had gone to Florida from Cuba, but returned after many years. He was approached to often he got a t-shirt made saying "no soy yanqui". And he was Cuban!
Lots of affection and contact between people: man-man (hands touching, cheeks touching, embraces); man-woman (hugs, cheeks touching, kisses); man/woman-child (kisses and embraces, depending on the child's age); old-young (hugs, hand-slapping, kisses). And always yelling between friends across the street, in the stadium, etc.
Lots of line-ups, for bread, for the bank, for foods, for the ferry, for a public telephone, for the internet. All taken in stride. There always seems to be time.
Street vendors of veggies. Men standing with eight-foot-long garlands of garlic and five feet of onions. As well as pineapples, tomatoes, cukes, carrots, beets, peppers (hot and sweet), bananas, cabbage, guava, mango, papaya, squash.
A man with a bicycle parked at the side of the Avenida, carefully rearranging his two pig's heads in the carrier.
Young men make a style statement with their haircuts. Most are shaved up the sides, some so there is only a disc of hair around the top, some co there is a cap coming down to an inch or so above the ears. Some of the hair is permed so that it stick straight up about three inches, others the hair is combed flat and oiled down. Some of the hair on top can be styles into curves or top-knots. Their hair is almost more stylish than the girls'.
Lots of tattoos on both young men and young women. I have seen them on the face, on the upper and lower legs (front or back), on the arms.
Many small black birds in cages, sold in markets. On some days, we see many of them outside to give the bird some fresh air.
Bicycles have added seats on the front of the frame for children. Often have another person, and sometimes two, on them.
Electric scooters are big here.
Streets are washed on the Bulevar in the morning and again at night. Many people seem to wash their floors once or twice a week. And people wash their sidewalk at least weekly, and keep the street clean outside their houses.
CD's are sold in many places. Sometimes you see racks of several hundred of them, cheaply produced. Don't know the price.
At the hotel pool, there are three carefully laid out and labelled large containers for aluminum, plastic, and cardboard/paper recycling. The other tourists used these. The server in the area dumped everything in the garbage.
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