Checked into a casa in the Old Town this time round for a change, right in the middle of all the action. It was quite a cool old building with marble stairs and a balcony - that we didn't stand on for any length of time - overlooking a busy street which was really cool to hear everything going on, salsa music coming out of people's apartments, people chatting in the street, bicycle bells ringing, sellers.....you name it!

Spent the rest of our time hanging out with Jodi and Co shopping in the local market and visiting the Chocolate museum, more of a tasty cafe really, but who cares, which sent everyone a bit loony and hyper!

Tim and I took a stroll through Centro Havana and checked out the famous, or infamous, boat Granma that bought Fidel and Che from Mexico on the eve of the revolution and managed to spot some pretty cool Banksy grafitti too!

And obviously we had a big night out with the girls on their last night with dinner at a traditional Cuban bar with a great salsa band that really got the crowd going. The girls were all bought flowers from some local lads at the other end of the bar on the promised that they got a dance later on!! Cheeky night cap of super strong dacquries and some sad farewells and we were on our own again...

...Well, that is, until we randomly bumped into Ash and Alex again in the market the next day! We all went for the best meal so far in a famous paladar called La Guardia where a famous Cuban movie Fresa and Chocolate was filmed. It was a really cool place at the top of a dilapidated building, up some rickety marble staircase to a totally eclectic restaurant filled with random stuff.....old cameras, statues of Jesus, bizarre paintings, an old sink.....But most importantly the food lived up to its reputation and broke our month long Cuban 'fast'!!!

The last two days we lounged around town with these guys, visited the Havana Club Rum museum, took a sunset stroll along the malecon where Tim finally got his picture of fishermen!, and paid a doorman a peso each to let us up to the top of the Bacardi building tower which had a fab view across the whole city....before supping a final cocktail on the roof of their super plush art deco boutique hotel!!

Spot on way to finish a holiday!