Here is our last postcard from Cuba. We leave hopefully tomorrow and expect to arrive in Quito during the evening. We have enjoyed our time in cuba andit will be quite a difference moving from 31 degrees at sea level to less than 20 degrees at 10,000 feet! We are not sure how often we will be able to get to update the blog over the next six weeks but we will when we can. Do keep in touch through the message board or email and we will reply asap. We think we are...

Safely back in Santiago and back to the 31 degree heat. Hope you haven´t all been blown away in britain, and that the roof in our house in Chester and Welshpool are still intact! Thanks to all of you who have sent emails and left messages on the message board. To el presidente, please be assured harriet does exist but she´s the one with the digital camera and she is afraid to let mike use it knowing his luck with photocopiers and other tecnology! We w...

We are at this lovely north coast resort for the weekend althought the weather is not exactly what we had hoped for. Instead of sitting on the beach we have been dodging heary showers and avoiding the waves as they crash over the Malecon. Just like blackpool. However the journey here through the mountains was great. We took the local bus that took five hours the road was a bit scary at times and the drops were very steep. We are staying in a family house and we ...

A day in the life............... Well we are well and truly installed in our new home.  We are staying with a retired couple called Olga and Fernando.  Olga was a teacher and Fernando was an accountant so has much in common with Mike.  He also has a 1950 plymouth which he spends many happy hours reparing and doing errands in.  The house is easy walking to our class room which is in the house of Roberto who is in his 50s he also teaches in nigh...

Happy new year everybody. We celebrated twice last night. Once at 7pm, midnight british time and again at midnight-actually I think we celebrated all the way through until the early hours. On the way here from Havana, mike had his GPS confiscated by the customers as they said it is seen as a military threat in cuba! They also took Harriet´s gaffa tape. However we got here in one piece. Santiago is cubas second biggest city with half a million inhabitan...