Arrived at a lovely casa, super friendly folks with a mad dog! Dumped our bags then explored the town and walked down to the point which juts right out into the bay. Had a moneda peso lunch which perhaps not surprisingly was the smallest meal we have ever been served much to the acute disappointment of the starving boys! Cheeky sundowner at Club Cienfuegos before hailing a horse taxi cart back into town! That night we went for dinner, but much like all Cuban re...

Caught a cheeky taxi to the tiny town of Remedios to watch the world famous Las Parrandas fireworks display on Christmas Eve. Ended up staying in an illegal casa for the first night because the whole town was totally rammed, which was fine despite the loud squealing of pigs being slaughtered in the backyard! Hooked up with some fellow illegals Aussies Flick and Jack to check out the floats for the evenings fireworkfestival and sample some of the local 3 peso be...

Arrived at Santa Clara after the longest four hours ever including lots of random stops and a Mel Gibson movie in Spanish with Portugeuse subtitles....couldn't figure out why we were attracting so much attention on the bus until we read that the Astro buses are strictly for Cubans and somehow we had ended up the only tourists on board! Bit of a c*** up when we arrived at the casa which had been pre-booked by our lovely family in Havana, to discover the wily old...

A brief stop in San Jose and then we were on our way to Cuba....the land of Castro, Communism and casa familiars. Everything was slightly different from the moment we took off....the plane was well old and all the safety equipment was in Russian from the 1950s when they were a superpower daddy to Cuba! Caught a taxi to our chosen hotel but it was too expensive, so the next thing we know phonecalls are being made and we are being collected by a very friendly g...