Jump to full article: Charleston (SC) Post & Courier, 2008-03-23
Author: Brian Hicks The Post and Courier
Intro: I am sitting across from the Malecon, smoking a Cohiba, drinking a Cristal and staring with across the bay with more than a decade´s worth of wide wonder at the Morro Castle Lighthouse.
And for once, I´m at a loss for words.
I'm not one to be struck breathless, but for more than 15 years, I have wanted to see this place, visit the world where Hemingway walked the Earth and time stopped 49 years ago. Now that I'm here, it's hard to describe it. . . .
A contingent of us from the South Carolina Press Association are here on a study trip, a chance to see this place so close, yet so far from the United States. We are staying at the Hotel Nacional . . .
Back when Jimmy Buffett was a poet, he wrote a song called "Havana Daydreamin'", and the last verse begins: "Ceiling fans stir the air, cigar smoke doth swirl."
He could have been talking about this place.
There's not much to report yet.
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