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...

Hurrah we are here! The flight was very long, we had to sit on the tarmac for two hours before we took off from paris airport. All in all we were travelling fo r24 hours. Hotel Sevilla is excellent and Havana old town is a great place to wander, have a few beers and have something to eat. Not much hassel from the locals, most are really friendly, A few too many europeans! The weather is hot, over 30 degrees but there is a nice cool breeze from the ocean. We are ...