Our last day We got up to be greeted by an amazing old car, better than the one we paid for, just to take us to the airport. It was actually the best car we have had and its just a taxi! We passed customs and ticketing so easily it was ridicules. We changed what we could back to dollars and tried to spend our last dimes, only to find out we are a cent or two short of a chocolate, now we were left with a few useless coins. We flew out of Havana and that was th...

The Malecon One last item to be ticketed off the list, drive along the malecon at sunset in an old car. First we walked the city loop to get onto the Malecon and see the famous drive by foot. We dined at a government run restaurant where i got a cockroach on my pizza. They removed the cockroach and told me it was a crouton. I followed to explain that the cruton had legs and therefore was not a crouton so they offered us a free desert. This place will not get a ...

Hershey's Train We started our trip from Matanzis to Havana and to do this we took the Hershey train to Casablanca and later a ferry to Havana. I bought a bar of Hershey's chocolate in Guatemala to eat ironically on the Hershey's train. We arrived early to the train station and payed 25 times what the locals do. When we finally got on the train it filled up and then up some more. We made it around half way on a very slow, very uncomfortable train. We pulled i...

A long day We took one bus followed by another, Trinidad to Verado and onto Matanzis. It was a long voyage but after everything that had happened, it was our only choice as the festival killed our prior plans of heading further east. We arrived in Matanzis and chose to try and stay at a lonely planet recommended casa, but really it was the worst place we stayed at the entire time we were in Cuba. It was clean, it just had no atmosphere, no love. Matanzic was a...

Playa Aycon It is 13 reasonably flat kilometres from Trinidad to Playa Aycon and we had read that it was a nice day out if you hired bikes. We packed our day sacks and water and hired bikes to ride to the beach. The ride there was great fun, nice scenery and with a couple of sections of downhill. The outer parts of the city melted away into farmland and later we rode through two small villages. We were chased a couple of times by dogs, had to dodge some really h...