Great Place! It’s So Authentic! Let’s Change It!
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.01.02 | 1:18 AM ET
On a visit to Cuba, Campbell Smith went to Havana’s La Bodeguita del Medio, the same bar where Hemingway and Che once sipped mojitos looking for old Cuba. What he found instead were tourists requesting “Buena Vista Social Club” songs from the house band.
“It is a fundamental contradiction of travelling that as soon as a place becomes a tourist destination, it ceases to be the thing that you wanted to visit in the first place,” he writes in a thoughtful piece in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Fortunately, Smith finds hope in a singing drunk who wandered in off the street.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
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