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...

Breakfast at the casa to start the day of travel although we needn't have got up so early as our collectivo minibus was 45mins late. We were just about to give up & go investigate other options when it was finally showed so we were soon heading towards La Habana! It was about a 3 hours trip & despite the guarantees of door to door service the minibus was too big to enter Old Havana so we were dropped at the Capital Building, which you really can't miss ev...

Breakfast on the patio, the usual eggs, coffee & I also had a packet porridge I had in my bag. Charged for the day we walked down to the bus station area to organise our transport to Havana. It took barely 5 minutes to secure a collectivo minibus for 15CUC. We walked across the road to the hop on hop off bus stop & waited. And waited. Initially we figured it was just Cuba time but some other girls went to ask & the first bus was just canceled. Just be...

The year started early as the alarm went off at 6.30 to get up and at em' this morning. Another big breakfast at the casa & once again our ride was early so by 8am we were in our way to Vinales. Our taxi was shared by an Italian couple going to Havana. To pick them up we confirmed the theory that you need to ask five people directions to actually find where you are going as the driver asked someone at each street corner until we located their casa particular....

Unfortunately we were disappointed by breakfast this morning as there were no eggs! Apparently the shop had run out. On the up side not only did our taxi turn up but it was also 45mins early so we were soon underway heading towards Trinidad. The drive to Topes de Collantes was about 1.5hrs as we climbed up into the hills from Santa Clara. The driver didn't know the area so there was some discussion about him not wanting to find the walk we wanted to do but after ...