Hello ladies and gents this is the Viking telling you that today we are talking about
CUBA
Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in January 1998.
The communist party is the only legal party in the country.
“The Old Man and the Sea,” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” were written by the famous writer Ernest Hemingway while he lived in Cuba.
Almost 100,000 barrels of oil are received by Cuba from Venezuela every day.
Americans visiting the island can bring home a total of $100 worth of cigars and rum.
The uniform colour of school children depicts their grade level. Every child between the ages of 6 and 15 is required to attend the school.
Recipes in Cuba are passed down from generation to generation. They typically do not write down their recipes.
The number of daily newspapers published in Cuba dropped from 58 in the 1950s to 20 in more recent times.
It is a tradition in Cuba to burn dolls at New Year’s Eve to symbolize the forgetting of bad times and look forward to a fresh start with the New Year.
Cuba, which was discovered by explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, was controlled by Spain until 1898.During April-September 1980, approximately 124,000 Cubans migrated to the U.S., as they were freely allowed to do so by Fidel Castro.
And as always have a chilled day from the Viking
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