Cuba! An eight day home-stay tour of Western Cuba – Day 8
We’re up early today for our drive back to Havana. I start the day with a quiet half hour in the courtyard garden of our home-stay casa, catching up on […]
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Cuba! An eight-day home stay tour of Western Cuba – Day 7
A tortoise can see the sun move. Margurite and I get into a great conversation over a leisurely breakfast swapping experiences and theories, exploring the ideas of time and space […]
Cuba! An eight-day home stay tour of Western Cuba – Day 6
Awakened too early by the rooster in the back yard of our Cienfuegos casa. Half-awake, it sounds to me exactly like “Shut-the-fuck-uuup!” over and over and over again while I struggle […]
Cuba! An eight-day home stay tour of Western Cuba – Day 5
We’re all up early for the long drive from Vinales to Cienfuegos on the south coast, via Havana. Jorge says seven hours including stops and lunch. Breakfast is pancakes, fruit and plaintains. Margurite and I say thank […]
Cuba! An eight-day home stay tour of Western Cuba – Day 4
I must have slept soundly as I am barely awake when Margurite taps on the door for breakfast. A teenager, presumably one of Maga and Julian’s three sons, is sprawled in […]
Cuba! An eight-day home stay tour of Western Cuba – Day 3
Danielle and friend in Plaza des Armes A rushed morning of preparations. Get cash from the hotel cambio, check out of the hotel, arrange to store a bag for the […]
Cuba! An eight-day home stay tour of Western Cuba – Day 2
Slow morning. It looks overcast but the breeze that still blows through my open window is warm. I have the day ahead of me before I will join my tour […]
Cuba! An eight-day home stay tour of Western Cuba – Day 1
Courtyard of the Hotel Nacional from my 8th-floor room Streaking across the American eastern seaboard from Toronto to Havana in the night sky. The tail of the Florida keys disappears into the Caribbean […]
