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Casa de Campo: The Hotel
What do you get when you carve out 7,000 acres of Caribbean coastline, build a hotel with 265 rooms and 100 private villa rental homes, construct four golf courses, a new marina, private beach and a residential community the size of a small city? Paradise? Pretty darn close.
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A Heartfelt Rumba
A Cuban musician friend of mine named Ernan Lopez-Nuzza, one of the island's best jazz pianists, and his wife, Wendy, reminded me the other day during lunch of a rumba called "La Muerte Me Llama Que Es Esto?" The song, loosely translated, means Death Calls Me But What Is That?
I was thinking of that last week when I was hanging with the great tobacco man Alejandro Robaina at his farm in Pinar del Río.
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The Pebble Beach of the Caribbean
The rating of golf courses is subjective. Some players like old-style parkland courses, some like the links format, others only get excited over target golf. The debate over modern versus traditional designs can go on forever. There are very few perfect golf courses, although we all know the ones that get touted as such by name: Pine Valley, Augusta, Shinnecock, Cypress Point, Pebble Beach, Winged Foot, Seminole and places like Pinehurst No.
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Cuba Meets Ecuador
Americans might finally get the chance to try Robaina grown tobacco in the not too distance future. Hiroshi Robaina, the grandson of Cuba's best-known tobacco grower, Alejandro Robaina, is setting up plantations in Ecuador.
"The climate is the same level as Cuba," said the 33-year-old last week, during a visit to his family's plantation in Pinar del Río, Cuba.
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Golf Trip
You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief around the stone coffee table on the outdoor patio, the palm fronds brushing against each other in the light breeze and the stars—especially the Orion constellation—shining in the clear, nighttime sky.
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