Booked our flights this morning, back to the hostel packed our bags then off to the airporto. I do not know anything about cuba other than: They dont like the states They don't really have the Internet Fidel Castro started his revolution here They have old cars They make good cigars and rum

Have met many lovely folk. I have a non English speaking Argentinian roommate called Maxi (short for Maximus which turned out was his Facebook name and he has 4accounts and around 15k followers. The other details include naked photos and him being gay) and an English squba diving Brazilian roommate Felipe who is doing all the translating between Maxi and myself. This maxi guy could really help my Spanish! Met a nice German couple over, a cool Asian lady Vivian wh...

Went to the NASA space station - Spain drove us - and learnt a lot about the various previous missions. Seen some ongoing trials for the current space station and missions. Got soaked on one of those American universal studio keep all legs and arms inside the car at all times golf buggy come train type thing. Highlight: seeing folk you know are REALLY REALLY clever. In the evening, and with nick joining us, we went to the cheesecake factory for dinner. The main...

Unfortunately up early, collected a nick and breakfast, then off the the valiant stadium for the texans vs Miami dolphons at (American) football. Nick and I had separate seats, beer helped the hangover. Had no idea what was going on but everyone was happy and the music was good. After we crashed in the flat.

Up and out early, we went to fookin & Phoenix to watch the first half of the Scotland match. French toast for breakfast. Then we headed to st Arnold's brewery. My friend nick from Uni joined us. Now we should have this at home. It's a big hall with long banquet style benches. Bar at the end with various draughts. On entry you get given a half pint and chips, which you trade for various draughts. Everyone takes games (we had cards) and drinks (at a reasonable...