by beth | Dec 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
The flight on air France was good and uneventful. I had champagne because I could. Aperatif ma’am? Why yes mademoiselle would love some. Anyone who knows me would chuckle to hear that I was seated beside two seven year old girls with a two year old...
by beth | Dec 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Well I promised to write my first blog post ages ago. Here i am on day four having some spare time to myself at last! I first wanted to write about my high anxiety coming into this trip. India to me has always been sort of the epitome of travel. .. a...
by beth | Jan 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
I visited Havana, Cuba, in January 2015. It was interesting timing, as about a week before I left, the US announced that it was working on thawing the 50-some year old frosty relationship it has had with Cuba. I am very glad I was able to see Havana before the...
by beth | Jan 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Slept like a log but woke up at 7:15 like clockwork. Shit! Wandered down for breakfast and had missed the gang at breakfast but saw Monique, this other guest who is staying at the hotel. Her husband Al likes to sleep in so I joined her for some bread, pancakes and...
by beth | Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
This morning we walked down to the ivy covered trees by the river. Mitch had warned us that it was sketchy, garbage everywhere. I didn’t mind. Before we got to the ‘park’, beside the road was lying a goat head, a chicken’s body missing the head, a gutted turtle, and a...
by beth | Jan 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
I seem to be missing a bunch of days. I’ve been here longer than 7 days. Who gives a fuck. Yesterday was the bus trip to Viñales. We took a large bus since the other group (Mitch’s father in law’s language class) was coming with. They were pretty annoying. They’re a...
by beth | Jan 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Is it day four? Did I miss a day? Lol I don’t care any more. How do you say that in Spanish? Holy fuck I’m so mellow. I need to find a way to keep travelling forever. What did we do today? uhhhh I finally found some COLD milk for my cereal which was awesome because...
by beth | Jan 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
We were meant to go on a field trip to Venales (sp?) a tobacco plantation, this morning at 8:30 but there was a torrential downpour. We were outvoted and the trip was cancelled. Which was a good thing as the morning was a write off. So instead we had a portrait lesson...
by beth | Jan 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Poor Mitch got detained in the Havana airport as he was bringing in a lot of donated cameras for the local art college, after many hours of flight delays. He got four hours sleep last night. I slept about nine hours! Was woken up by singing, slamming doors, and a lot...
by beth | Jan 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Got through customs without a hitch… I declared I had narcotics on my form (my back pain meds) and they just took my form and smiled. I was worried about the huge bag of vet supplies I brought in, but nobody seems to care. Met some funny little French Canadians in the...
