HAVANA (AP) — Ernest Hemingway has returned to Cuba… in a method.
Eighteen white-bearded males who resemble the late U.S. creator arrived in Havana to go to a few of his favourite locations when he lived on the island many years in the past.
The members of the Hemingway Look-alike Society on Saturday visited the creator’s favourite bar in Havana, “El Floridita,” the place the music instantly picked up, and vacationers and locals gathered round to take images.
Earlier, they went to the San Francisco de Paula municipality and Finca Vigia, a former residence to Hemingway that’s now a museum. There, they performed baseball with kids.
“That is the reason for our visit: the kids and their families,” mentioned Joe Maxy, from Tennessee, who is among the bearded males honoring the creator of “The Old Man and the Sea.”
The go to comes as Cuba and america are within the midst of tense relations. Washington maintains sanctions on the islands, and issues are unlikely to vary as Donald Trump prepares to imagine the presidency in January.
After former President Barack Obama lifted some restrictions in 2017, Trump largely shut down U.S. cooperation with Cuba and hit the nation with new sanctions.
The U.S. typically prohibits Individuals from touring to Cuba for tourism, though it provides some permits.
The look-alikes arrived in Havana on Friday after they took half in a ceremony on the Hemingway marina in honor of Diana Nyad, the primary swimmer to cross the Gulf of Mexico from Cuba to Florida, and they’re going to go away the island on Sunday.
Hemingway lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1960.
