8th January Plaza de Armas A somewhat confusing but uneventful day really. We got up around 11 and since there was still no sign of Alex we once again spent most of the day sorting computer stuff, this is what happens when you have 2 months with no internet!! Whilst we were doing this Jamie and Alex's roomate Augustin came back from somewhere, grabbed all his stuff in 2 or 3 huge suitcases and walked out the door. He came back a couple of minutes later to dr...

7th January Swimming at the country club We were up and about by 10 (surprising after the late night) and by 11 we were ready to head off with Jamie and his 2 children, Benjamin and Camilla, to the club which is kind of like a country club where you have to be a member to go in but can bring guests. The drive there was slightly eventful as we stopped off at a garage for about 15mins while Jamie did some business, then next thing you know he's asking if we ca...

6th January Surfing and Dublin Today we got up for breakfast again to find ourselves in the middle of a power cut which was a pain as we wanted to check the internet for Couchsurfing messages! After 10mins or so it came back on and we were able to see that Alex, a guy we'd met and danced with at the salsa couch meeting was able to host us for a few days and had given us his number to call. After breakfast we went out to find a phone and eventually got throug...

5th January Maestra Vida. Today was fairly uneventful, at least during the day time. We have so much stuff to catch up on that we spent about 12 hours on the internet, sometimes even using a computer each when one of the hostel ones was free in order to speed the process up. We managed to upload the Cuba blogs and make a dent in our to do list before we turned our attention to the question of what to do that evening. After a quick discussion with the guy beh...

4th January City tour and Couch Salsa. We got up in plenty of time for breakfast and by 9.30 (so early!) were ready to explore the city. We had heard about a free walking tour that takes place from the Plaza de Armas and decided that would be good to give us a bit of an insight and general overview of the city and its people. We weren't wrong and in fact it turned out to be an exceptionally good tour with lots of info you don't find in the guide books such a...