Claire Boobbyer is a travel writer, photographer, and editor who fell in love with Latin America more than 10 years ago after several backpacking trips around the region. She moved to Spain to learn Spanish and, after a stint of working with wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon, headed north to Central America. She first went to Cuba in 1998 to spend a newly reinstated Christmas Day holiday in Havana and has been returning ever since. She is the author of several other guidebooks on the region and her photographic work has appeared in various guidebooks and alongside her travel articles. She is also the current author of Frommer’s Cuba. She is available for consultation about Cuba at claireboobbyer@btinternet.com.