Our first job today was to organise our transport out of Havana & it managed to be done before breakfast! Maria called & booked a taxi for me to the airport and mum organised with the other people staying at our casa for a lift to Varadero as they were picking up a hire car and going there anyway. For something different we went & had a buffet breakfast at the Hotel Florida for 7CUC which was ok & provided a few extra options from our normal break...

It's raining still so we leisurely took our 3CUC breakfast which had rather weak coffee then set off to find someone to do some fixing. Firstly we found the watch fixer in a little glass fronted shop with each 'tradie' sitting at a small wooden desk/work space. Firstly the watchmaker said the whole mechanism of mum's watch needed changing but after some waiting it turned out some water had got in a small crack so he managed to get it working for only 3CUC. Mum th...