After working with Cuba's elite boxing team for a decade,

Bryn Butler started to ask questions, and it got him banned from the island.

If these athletes are an example of all the successes of the revolution when they stay,

what does it say about the state of the revolution when they stay, what does it say about the state of the

revolution when they leave? Coming up today on travel with Rick Steve's, we delve

into the contradictions of Cuba as it sees a flood of American tourism looming on the

horizon.

Journalist Gary Rivlin investigates how much New Orleans has changed 10 years after Hurricane Katrina.

What's improved and what still remains to be done and what has America learned from it?

And the truth is folks back when knew what they were doing and so the first parts of New

Orleans that were inhabited, the French Quarter, it was the highest ground. And in Ireland, they're still arguing about the legacy of the revolutionary leader Michael Collins.

Now when Collins signed that treaty, he turned to his colleagues and he said,

something along the lines of lads, I have just signed my own death warrant.

It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves.

One great way to connect with the locals is to speak the language or at least some of it.

Rosetta Stone is a fast fun way to learn.

It's got helpful tools like online video chats with native speaking teachers.

You can take the Rosetta Stone demo or purchase the program at a special discount at

Rosetta Stone.com.

slash Rick Steves. As a sports journalist, Bryn Jonathan Butler gained access to a site of Cuba few others ever get to experience.

He worked with Cuba's elite Olympic boxing team for the better part of a decade and still

managed to avoid getting one of those 3 a.m. knocks on the door that means

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