Hotel Ambos Mundos

This guide to Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana climbs to room five eleven, where Ernest Hemingway kept a rumpled routine of pacing between typewriter and window for roughly seven years starting in 1932, drawn there by the view over Old Havana's rooftops and the harbor. It follows what he wrote at that window table, from revisions of Death in the Afternoon to drafts of Green Hills of Africa. Listen for the original Otis elevators, still running one flight down above a fountain of turtles.