Coppelia Ice-cream Building
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About Coppelia Ice-cream Building
The scene is unprecedented: It is 9:00 AM, and lines of people crowd around the garden where the Coppelia ice cream building is located. I tried to get in the previous afternoon, but in order to have an ice cream under its main concrete dome, you have to pay with the local currency (the Cuban peso). I had arrived on the island that same day and could only exchange U.S. dollars for convertible Cuban pesos at the airport without having time to make the second transaction at a bureau de change in the city. The other option, paying with these Cuban pesos, only allowed for ice cream in an annex of the building, a small, air-conditioned room. La escena es inédita: nueve de la mañana y varias filas de personas se aglutinan alrededor del jardín donde se encuentra la Heladería Coppelia. Traté de acceder la tarde anterior, pero para poder tomarte un helado bajo su cúpula principal de hormigón uno tiene que pagar con moneda nacional (el peso cubano). Había llegado a la isla ese mismo día y solo pude cambiar dólares estadounidenses por pesos cubanos convertibles en el aeropuerto, sin haber tenido tiempo realizar la segunda transacción en una casa de cambio en la ciudad. La otra opción, pagar con estos pesos cubanos, solo permitía tomar helado en un anexo del edificio, una pequeña habitación con aire acondicionado. We waited for half an hour under the sun that, despite being early in the morning, was already intense. A Cuban couple in their 60s, waiting in front of me, decided to go to a nearby restaurant to get some hot dogs; other people in the line began to follow their example. During the next few days in Havana, I noticed that the long waits were used for other duties. Esperamos media hora bajo un sol, que pese a ser temprano, cae con intensidad sobre nuestras cabezas. Un matrimonio cubano de unos 60 años aguarda delante mío y ameniza la espera yendo y viniendo a un restaurante cercano a comprar perritos calientes; Otros compañeros de fila comienzan a seguir su ejemplo.
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