A MOVEABLE FEAST

here’s no water in the pool where the American actress Ava Gardner once swam—instead, it has been replaced by dead leaves and dappled sunlight that dances its way across the pale blue tiles as elegantly, I imagine, as Gardner did during her dips. Nearby, a 12-metre-long wooden fishing boat named Pilar sits moored on dry land, another relic at the writer Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban home, Finca Vigía, not far from Havana. Gardner provided Hemingway with company and a drinking companion, but it was the fishing expeditions taken aboard this vessel that.