Los carros/coches

In Spain a car is 'un coche'. In Cuba a car is 'un carro'.

I'm having to learn all the differences between Cuban spanish and spanish from Spain; like juice is 'jugo' not 'zumo', and its 'guagua' not 'autobus' and having to listen carefully as the Cubans don't say the S at the end of words...! So I've also been learning how to get around Havana and which money to use. You can get a normal taxi, which costs 3-6 CUC. CUC is the tourist dollar and is about 60p (£) to 1CUC. Or you can get a collective taxi which are the big, old american cars like the green car in the foto:

To get these, you stand at the side of a main road and stick your arm out, then they stop and you ask if they're going in the direction you want, you get in and then you pay them 10 pesos when you get out.
Cuba has two currencies...national pesos and CUC. 24 pesos is worth 1CUC so a collective taxi costs less than 30p which is very cheap! Or...you can get the bus. I have only done this once as they are always fuller than the London underground in rush hour and in this heat it must be disgusting! But the bus only costs 0.40 pesos which I think is like 1p! Maybe I should get the bus more that's well cheap!

The two currencies means that if something is in pesos it's very cheap for foreign people like taxis and food from cafes in the street. I think because of tourism they introduced the tourist dollar to earn more money, however this has now meant that lots of things like shampoo and entry into clubs are now priced in CUC which means normal Cubans can't afford them.

People who rent out rooms in their home like where I stay, and taxi drivers are very rich as they earn CUC, but even doctors and everyone else can be poor as they earn their money in pesos. Apparently normal workers earn 400 pesos a month and doctors earn around 800 pesos a month which is just 20CUC and 40CUC. The lady I live with is earning 40CUC a night as she rents two rooms in her house which means she is earning a doctors monthly salary a day! This must be one of the 'Critical Issues in Tourism' which we've been studying all year..