On November 25, five years to the day since Fidel Castro’s death, I was sitting in the garden of Eclectico, a restaurant in Havana’s elegant neighbourhood of Vedado. Streets ran away on either side, pavements broken by the roots of Jaguey trees that shaded crumbling old mansions.
Listening to the singer Haydee Milanes perform a ballad, I sipped on a mojito, Cuba’s cocktail of mint, rum and lime.
This most lovely way to spend a Cuban evening has been all