Episode 4

Episode 4

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S1 E4: Michael Palin stays in Ernest Hemingway's favourite Cuban hotel and samples a few of his favourite hangouts including Bodeguita del Medio and the Floridita in old Havana. He meets 101 year old Gregorio Fuentes, considered an Old Man of the Sea, and who sits in the sun, smoking cigars. He peers into Hemingway's Havana house that has now become a shrine where visitors aren't allowed to tread. In West America, Michael attempts to be a cowboy and whilst visiting Yellowstone Park partakes in some male bonding. He also visits the house in Ketchum, Idaho, where Hemingway died in 1961.