The joys of traveling in Europe in the summer: beware!

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31. With my luck, probably Albania.

Or Somalia or some such place.

Besides, the last time I was in Cuba, it was at the invitation of their government. In was in January 1982, and the trip back was on Cubana airlines on an old Soviet Ilyushin 62, which was already a poor copy of the old British VC-10. That was a similar trip, let me tell you!! After the second attempt to fly to Montréal ended with the plane returning to Martí, I asked how long it would take to fix the plane THIS time? The Cubana people told me we were lucky to make it back alive, and that they would let us know when another plane could be found. It took another 8 hours, and we finally got to Montréal at 4 AM instead of the scheduled 6 PM the day before.