
Brett reveals that it was she who ended the relationship, and that she intends to return to Mike. Though she says she doesn't want to talk about it, she does nothing but talk, and Jake of course listens. Jake faithfully travels to the capital overnight when he finds Brett in her hotel room, she is devastated by the end of her affair with Romero. Soon, however, his relative tranquility is shattered by a telegram from Brett begging him to join her in Madrid. Jake travels to San Sebastian, where he relaxes alone in cafés and on the beach.


"Being able to come here, and to see international borders like those of Cuba once again reopen, is marvelous," Pindado told Reuters.What's left of the group splits up, with Bill returning to Paris and Mike to Saint Jean de Luz, on the French side of the border. Spaniard Ignacio Pindado strolled through Havana's central Plaza de la Revolucion, thrilled with the opportunity to travel once again. Tourists were equally happy as they snapped photos of downtown Havana's plazas and side streets.

"Now, little by little, things are returning to normal." There was nothing," Siloche told Reuters. "Now the economy is beginning to revive."Īuthorities closed schools, entertainment venues and restaurants, and drastically scaled back flights to the island for nearly two years during the pandemic, exacerbating an economic crisis that left residents short of food and medicine.ĭayana Siloche, who sells traditional Cuban handicrafts to tourists in Havana, had seen her livelihood all but wiped out during the pandemic. "Tourism is the engine of Cuba's economy," Hechevarria said as he watched tourists come in and out. The Bodeguita del Medio, a restaurant-bar that claims to be the birthplace of the mojito cocktail, was bustling on a sunny November day as bartenders prepared mint-laced drinks for largely European tourists in shorts and t-shirts.Įrnesto Hechevarria, a 55-year old tourism guide, told Reuters outside the bar once frequented by author Ernest Hemingway that foreign visitors would breathe life back into the city.
