30th Decmeber Spaghetti al dente. We got up early today as we had a taxi to catch at 9 but were well rewarded for our efforts by a beautiful mist hanging over the mountains and in the valley, sparkling in the morning sunshine, a lovely sight to leave Vinales with. We met David and Delphina at the end of our road and settled ourselves into the comparative luxury of a huge old american car for our journey back to Habana. The time flew by as we chatted about th...

27th December Vinales. We disembarked from the bus and went straight to the ticket counter where we discovered we had to wait 30 mins for it to open. When someone eventually did arrive he informed us that the bus to Vinales was already full. Understandably we were rather annoyed with this since we had tried to book our tickets a week ago however no one bothers to pick up the phone. (in cuba you can immediately spot an immigrant because they actually do their ...

23rd December Remedios. We had arranged to meet our taxi driver at 10 so we got up in time to pack and check the internet and then sat in our room to wait. When it became clear that he wasn't going to show up we asked Luis to call one that he knew to take us to Remedios. 20 minutes later and we were on our way after a couple of slight detours to take his friend home and try to find a petrol station with no queue, waiting for fuel is apparently not the done th...

20th December Travelling to Santa Clara We got up and packed, Andy had a rather cool shower then we said goodbye to Carlos and his wife and made our way to the bus station for about 11.15. Once again we were accosted by taxi driver touts but didnt feel like running the gauntlet again so opted to wait for the bus instead. Yet another method of operation at this Viazul (each one seems to be different which is a bit of a pain) we were told to wait until the bus tu...

17th December To Camaguay We got up at 9 today for breakfast as there were a couple of things we needed to do before leaving Holguin. After breakfast we walked into town stopping on the way to confirm that there was still no response from spirit. We chatted to Eddy for a while and then walked around taking picture of some things we had seen the day before as the battery had died. By the time we had done this it was time to leave so we said our goodbyes, excha...