Cuba Libre!

Our ride from Havanna to Holguin - a 30 year old Boeing 737-200 from mexican carrier Global Air, operated for Aerocaribbean.

Viva la revolucion! Such paintings are just everywhere - like in most socialist-countries.

Bull-Taxi: such vehicles are very common in Cuba, mostly due to the lack of money and fuel. On the streets you see a lot of horse and bull-coaches, many bicycles but few cars. This great pic was taken by Katrin.

A long dream came true over Kartin's and my birthday: We decided to fly to Cuba and do it our style. We did not fly to the huge tourist resorts in Varadero, on the northern tip of the island, but rather to Holguin, which is a province in the southern part and less crowded. What a great experience. In Cuba there are two political systems at the same time - Capitalism and Socialism: tourists who live in luxurious hotels and can buy anything they want with their own currency - CUC (Cuban Pesos Convertible) - and the natives who just get the basics from their own currency (CUP). Some products you just cannot buy with the local CUP currency. Very confusing.

We did several trips by plane, train, boat and bus all over the island and including a short one-day trip to Havanna. Words can hardly describe the great time we had. This is truely a paradise island. Please have a look at my flickr.com pics (Click the "more pictures" button on the top right of this page) and view my Cuba photoalbum.

Nassau Bahamas

One of the aviation highlights of my short visit to the Bahamas. This DC-3 is 65 years old and still going strong, hauling cargo to and from the US and the Bahamas. Looking a bit beaten up and faded while basking in the hot bahamian sun, I got to see her take of the next day on one of the more or less scheduled trips to Florida. As usual on my flickr site (www.flickr.com/photos/flyingaxel) will be some more pics.   

Gestern ist es mir gelungen, trotz aus-Flug pünklich zu Hause zu sein. Dieses Mal ging die Reise nach Eindhoven - eine Airport Premiere für mich. Mein letzter Versuch nach Eindhoven zu fliegen hat mich vor 7 Jahren nach Liege geführt: Als Flightmanager auf einer AN-26 war ich damals unterwegs von Ostende nach Eindhoven. Als Flugzeit dorthin waren ca. 30min geplant. Nach ca. 1:00h landeten wir dann gegen 22:15 und ich sah aus meinem Fenster im Frachtraum gerade noch die Leuchtreklame vom "Airport Liege" vorbeisausen...

Diesmal war ich aber etwas moderner unterwegs: Mit einer Cessna 425 Conquest 1 ...und den richtigen Airport haben wir auch getroffen!