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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...