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http://www.cuba-junky.com/
http://www.geocities.com/faqcuba…
http://www.cubaadvice.com/englis…
http://www.cubacar.info/englisch…
http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.co…
http://www.geocities.com/stevest…While you're at it, make sure you read
http://www.therealcuba.com/Not everyone knows, there is a bar with a dance show on the roof top of Hotel Inglaterra, at least on Saturdays. It's weird, there is no sign informing you about it, you need to "know" it. Enter the hotel, go into the elevator and the guy who operates it takes you to the roof without even looking at you, assuming you "know" and top floor is the one you want.
If you go to the oceanarium to see a good dolphin show, there is a huge spooky building nearby. It is Russian embassy.
Bring some basic meds and give them to people. Bring a bunch of ballpoints and give them to people. Yes they're that poor unless they run a casa particular advertised in Lonely Planet guide which made them a local tourist hub. Leave your English-Spanish dictionary to a child you think might use it, speaking English is the way out of poverty there. Use taxis at night (learnt first-hand after a midnight gang chase through calle Reina, luckily it's a totalitarian regime and police are on all corners). Nightly gangs with machettes have been reported in Barrio Chino.
Use a guagua (city bus), one of very few things you can get for Peso Cubano (have small change). You might have one that'll take you daily to Havana. You won't see many tourists on it.
Peso Cubano also buys you white bread if you can get it before it's gone. Comes in two major variations (pan suave and pan duro) and is very good (delicious, if you're from the British Isles).
Where are you staying, a hotel, a casa particular or something else?