Wandering around in Old Havana........

The difference between one street and the next in Old Havana was amazing..... beautiful, renovated buildings in some streets and some very decayed ones in others.  Presumably UNESCO money has been put to good use.....not necessarily for the poorer people who live there...but they are trying to preserve the buildings, or at least the facades. Also apparently the profits received from the State hotel group is going towards renovating Old Havana.

Typical traffic problem...... outside the Raquel Hotel!

...which has a beautiful stained glass ceiling.....

...the number of beautiful buildings was amazing..... which must have meant Old Havana was superb in its heyday....

.....most with interior courtyards......

This was the  original house of Representatives........ until the Capitolio was opened in 1929.....

Straying down towards the dock areas it was at first OK.......

.... passing the Dos Hermanos ......

favoured by......

...then around the corner it deteriorated rapidly......

...so I decided a quick return to the area around the hotel we were staying in was in order  and discovered the Chocolate Museum just around the corner ........

 .. a  delightful place to spend some time even if one does not like chocolate drinks.... which were only $1 a glass with biscuit!

...the modern moulds were there....

 .....with the finished product for sale.....

and so were the older moulds....

and it had lots of old posters......