Confusing…Isn’t it?

Two Photographs of Papa Hemingway?

No.. definitely not…

Brian Gordon Sinclair did it again. Brian is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and holds a Master of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Denver.

Brilliant

This is his photograph taken in the production of ‘Hemingway on Stage’

When we opened our Inbox of the mail we had a surprise. It was Papa Hemingway waiting for us between many mails. But when we did a sniffer dog job we realized it is not PAPA. It is a look alike. So similar.

It is Brian Gordon Sinclair as Hemingway On Stage. Brian is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and holds a Master of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Denver. Shortly, We will bring some more interesting facts abot PAPA from his mystery bag. 

Mamatha sagar, Professor in Bangalore University, India has sent this beautiful photograph of Papa Hemingway. She was in CUBA recently and visited the famous El Floridita Bar. We dont know whether she also told the bartender-”…O. K., but I rather like it without sugar and with double rum,” as Papa ordered.

Mamata on visiting our site and taken away by the write up ‘Cocktail called Hemingway’ has sent the picture she took exactly in the same place the write up was speaking. Thanks Mamata.. send more photos of Cuba. we will offer u a nice cocktail..cheers!

On your Christmas holidays you will know that there is a man who is linked for ever to El Floridita and this link was made since the beginning of the 20^th century. At the beginning of the 1930’s, writer Ernest Hemingway, famous by his book “The Old man and the Sea”, known by relatives and friends as “Papa,” began his frequent visits to Havana.

One noon of the year 1939, he went through the doors of the bar and sat down in the first stool of the left corner of the counter. It was his usual seat. Now it has remained in front of him, facing his bust, unveiled in 1954 by friends and admirers.

Your holidays in Cuba will give you the unique opportunity of having a picture with this famous American writer because his image is still there, sitting in its usual and every day seat, enjoying its favourite drink.

An experienced taster, the writer discovered daiquiri at El Floridita and, according to Antonio Melián, his favorite barman, he said: “…O. K., but I rather like it without sugar and with double rum,” and thus emerged the special cocktail that bears his name “Papa Hemingway”.

Ernest Hemingway became a part of the legendary bar. With his frequent visits raised the number of friends Cubans and foreigners that he took to the place. Among the celebrities that accompanied him were: the duke and duchess of Windsor, Jean Paul Sartre, Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper (his dear friend), Dominguín, Tennesse Williams, Spencer Tracy, Rocky Marciano, Ava Gardner, Herbert Matthews… and you can be one of them if you come to El Floridita.

This magic place is for sure among Hemingway’s friend list. The photographs on the walls are proof of some of these gatherings, thus granting a special touch to the bar counter and the main hall. A photograph is also on the wall that couldn’t be possibly missed, that of one of Hemingway’s greatest admirers and with whom he also kept bonds of reciprocal friendship: Commander Fidel Castro Ruz.

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Mr Jeff Tyler has written a beautiful piece about his visit to Papa Hemingway’s Cuba, for The Savvy Traveler. visit to this link to enjoy his writing on PAPA
http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org/show/features/1999/19990626/hemingway.shtml

Near the Catedral de San Cristobal, sweet songs spill out of a restaurant where musicians play for tips. Other Cubans, hit hard by the country’s economic woes, peddle their wares to tourists: cigars, mementoes with “I ‘heart’ Cuba” carved in wood and T-shirts with Ernest Hemingway’s face emblazoned across the front.Cubans claim Papa as one of their own. They adopted him after he adopted Cuba, where he lived for more than two decades. Here, as everywhere he went, Hemingway cultivated a reputation as a man larger than life: A figure who could out-drink an alcoholic and reel in bigger marlin than a professional fisherman. The legend lives on in old haunts that play up their status as Hemingway landmarks.

Places like the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where Papa polished For Whom the Bell Tolls. It’s just around the corner from the cathedral.

The hotel bellboy showed me the room late one night. Always the same room, he says. Fifth floor, on the corner looking out past the cathedral to the sea.

Bellboy: “Ernest Hemingway lived here during the 30’s. Seven years, 1932 to 1939. Because of its importance, it’s conserved as a museum.”