We are just off to our 4th salsa lesson. After we have had dinner we are going to hit the town to strut our stuff at bar Havana with the locals. Let's hope we don't embarrass ourselves. Ron will make us even better surely? xxx

So we're back in Cartagena! After an interesting trip up the coast we have returned to this beautiful city to take a combined spanish and salsa course, as our Spanish is horribly bad and if that fails us we can communicate with some over energetic hip shaking. The Spanish class is really good- intensive and difficult but structured and hopefully we should pick up basic sentence constructs from it. I found the salsa quite boringly basic and I'd done the three ste...

Had a fun night tonight on the chiva - basically a brightly coloured bus with open sides and a band in the middle playing the exact music you have on your Cuban cd! They go around the hotels picking people up and then they hand out the rum and coke and get the party started! There's about a million of them buzzing around town all trying to be the loudest and getting everyone to dance, whilst doing a semi tourist guide describing what we are seeing 'this is the co...

Volcano mud bath - check. Stripped naked and thoroughly washed by locals in a swamp - check. Quick swim in the ocean followed by lunch in a beach side shack - check. Siesta - check. Chieva trip here we come ...

Harry's booked his tickets to meet us in Argentina!!! Wahooooooo!!!!!