PAPA'S RETREAT

Ernest Hemingway's legacy looms large over Havana and you can have a daiquiri - or a mojito - to celebrate it

- Suhani Singh

Ernest Hemingway’s imprint is all over Havana, Cuba. There are the bars where the Noble laureate treated himself to daiquiris and mojitos. It’s also where he wrote two of his classics, The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls, crediting the privacy the country offered him for his creative spurt. No wonder he dedicated the Nobel Prize to the Caribbean island. Among the denizens he was endearingly referred to as ‘Papa’.

In the aftermath of the revolution and the rise of Fidel Castro, the American would leave Cuba for good in 1960. A few months later he’d die by suicide.

Bar hopping