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...

Chile So its 5.45 in the morning and neither of us has slept on the plane thanks to the entertainment system having some great films to watch! We got off the plane and made our way through customs fairly painlessly and changed some money before collecting our luggage and making our way into the pretty deserted airport terminal. We had already booked a hostel over a month ago so now we just needed to get there, which meant taking a bus from the airport and then...

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...