Category: Travel
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Cuban Vacation: Kitschbühel
Christopher Alexander is famous, at least in the Systems Architecture world, for his concepts around design patterns. For those unfamiliar with the concept, a design pattern can be thought of as a “mini architecture” and it is by combining these patterns that you come up with a complete architecture. Alexander’s purpose was to identify reusable…
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Cuban Vacation: Cars
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Cuba is known for its old American cars. Although they are fewer in number, many are still on the road. It would be misleading to suggest that these old cars are the only ones on the road. I saw many VWs, Toyotas as well as a BMW. But no new American cars.
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Cuban Vacation: Golf
Certainly one of the attractions for us of the Melia Las Americas was the golf package. The hotel is located right next to the Varadero Golf Club. The Par 72 course is about 6,200 meters in length. In the satellite picture above you can see the Pro Shop and the central part of the course,…
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Cuban Vacation: TV
in: Travel
The Hotel had satellite TV, that offered access to Deutsche Welle, ESPN, CCTV, (plus two other People’s Republic of China channels), Discovery, CNN, HBO, and others, including a Cuban channel. The Peter Mansbridge equivalent is shown below. While my Spanish is quite limited, the charisma conveyed in his voice is even apparent in these limited…
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Cuban Vacation: Overview
in: TravelWell, we returned last night, arriving at home around 1:30 AM. Overall, it was a very relaxing vacation. Linda and I got in two rounds of golf, Sunday and Monday before I fell and sprained my ankle Monday evening. The remaining days were spent by the pool reading and floating (in the pool). Our plans…