Last night I watched Conan O’Brien’s Cuba episode on Netflix, look for Conan without Borders, it was great. I recognized so many of the locations, one in particular, was the La Guarida Restaurant in Havana. We stopped there and spent hours photographing the architecture, the linens hanging to dry in a room I would kill for… (seriously this would be the most incredible studio, or place to live, work, or just own, put a chair and sit in) they hang their linens out to air dry in the space. We had an incredible lunch in the restaurant, photos of celebrities were all over the walls, I even took a picture of the Conan one, only to watch his visit a month later. Conan and I also made it to the roof to overlook the city. I am sure Conan was invited, I kind of just went up a ton of stairs and pretended I knew where I was going. The view is breathtaking. Other famous faces that have visited were Madonna, Beyonce, Jay Z, Bon Jovi, the funny thing was if this was in here in America I remember thinking I would have rolled my eyes that all these celebrities had been there, but turns out they just have excellent taste, because it was one of my favorite spots in Cuba.
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WOW. I remembered when laundry was hung out to dry everywhere.