Restored American Classic Car in Trinidad Cuba

I pictured this beautifully restored American car in the city of Trinidad with the Museum of the Revolution in the background.  While I love cars myself (and I would like to find a way of sharing mine) I’m hoping that two things don’t happen with the thawing of US Cuban relations. The first is that these old cars don’t just get scrapped or exported to collectors in the rest of the world. They are now part of Cuba’s heritage and as such should be restored and used in Cuba. Secondly, I hope that Cuba doesn’t get flooded with new cars as that is the last thing it needs. Many of the streets are small and narrow and the Cuban cities don’t need to end up looking like any capitalist city. As Cuba is starting from scratch as it were it needs an organised scheme of shared car ownership where cars can be booked for an hour or more when needed and are placed conveniently throughout towns and cities. This in association with a decent public transport system should keep the streets clear, safe and clean and not tie up money on these expensive items which for most people sit idle for much of the day. The crazy world of the West is like it is because of poorly designed, inconvenient and expensive public transport systems. My hope that as in most other things that Cuba does that it again dares to be different. Copyright Junagarh Media, http://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk.

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Restoration – a tale of a steam locomotive

This is a photograph from our first trip to Paraguay, back in 1999 in fact. It is from the railway engineering works in the town of Sapucai.  Although we have been back to Paraguay several time since the photo was taken we have never been back to the railway works which from what I can see on the web has been tidied up and that’s great news. The workforce when we met them were a very dedicated group of people. We sell this photograph in various formats from our website www.junagarhmedia.co.uk.