The dream of visiting Liberty Island has haunted some Russian citizens literally from childhood. At the word "Cuba", the lines about "… the sky above me, like a sombrero" pop up in my memory, and the resort of Varadero does not seem so far away as the geography textbooks are trying to assert.
Cuba's white beaches and drinks, the azure blue of the Caribbean and incendiary samba in the company of charming mulatto women are great reasons to buy a plane ticket to the Western Hemisphere.
Alcohol of Cuba
The country of rum and famous cocktails hardly needs alcohol brought with them by tourists. And nevertheless, customs regulations remind of the maximum imported alcohol in the amount of three bottles per person. Removal is regulated only by the passenger's ability and the carrying capacity of his suitcases.
Prices for Cuban rum differ depending on the degree of aging. The most expensive is the seven-year-old Habana Club, a liter of which costs about $ 20 in stores. Rum Legendario "pulls" $ 10, and 0.7 liters of Santiago de Cuba will cost $ 8. Prices are for the beginning of 2014, but regular visitors to Liberty Island note their stability over the years.
Cuba's national drink
Rum-based in Cuba make many cocktails, known to visitors to fashionable establishments around the world. They differ in their components, appearance, color and strength, but rum is always present in their composition. The patriotic inhabitants of the island believe that Cuba's national drink is the Cuba Libre cocktail.
The legend and symbol of the free island was born in 1900, when American soldiers who participated in the liberation of the country from Spanish rule mixed Cuban rum and Coca-Cola in one glass and proclaimed a toast "Por Cuba Libre!" The recipe for the famous drink is very simple:
- Take a highball glass and squeeze a quarter of the lime into it.
- Then the glass is two-thirds filled with ice, which looks best if it is simply impaled with the wrong pieces.
- 50 grams of dark rum (ideally Anejo 7 Anos) and twice the amount of Coca-Cola are poured into a highball, after which the contents are mixed.
Alcoholic drinks of Cuba
In addition to the "cocktail of freedom", Cuba respects mojitos and daiquiris. The popularity of these cocktails is largely due to the writer Ernest Hemingway, who lived on the island for a long time. He preferred the alcoholic drinks of Cuba to all other alcoholic drinks and spent a lot of time every day in the popular Floridita and Bodeguita bars in Havana. Here and today the apple has nowhere to fall from the huge number of people who want to taste the favorite cocktails of old Ham.
