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Ginger's on Tour!
Viva Cuba! ... a country where everything seems topsy turvey ...
- where the cars are old, the buildings are amazing (even the ones crumbling down)
- where there is no advertising or American products ... and hardly any shops, apart from the ration shops that the locals queue at for basic goods
- where there are two currencies (one for locals and one for tourists), and based on the prices they charge, the tourists money seems to be supporting the whole economy
- where the tourists wait in air-conditioned comfort for buses and the locals wait on the road in the heat
- where the rum is $3 a bottle, icecream is $0.07 for four scoops and a whole lobster is only $12 (and that´s the tourist price!)
- where the music is awesome, and the Cubans know how to shake their booty
- where the nurses wear short white uniforms with black fishnet stockings
- where you get 20 years in prison for killing a cow (lucky de is a vego!)
- where it was too hard to work out how the whole place works
- where you are constantly told you have beautiful eyes and asked if you wanted a Cuban boyfriend
Two weeks in Cuba was such an amazing experience, and even de getting her bag snatched withing the first two hours of arriving didn´t detract from the experience (don´t worry, it was actually a very safe country ... just got caught in the wrong place and they only got away with a phrase book and the equivalent of $6 ... which is apparently half their monthly wage).
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