The summary of our 2014 Cuba trip
I've put all of the posts in order so that it is easier to read and if you want to print a copy for easier reading, or taking to your mother so she can read it(the reason I did it). You can load the summary and just hit print. Winter 2014 Our second trip to […more]
February 18th and 19th The trip home.
Pepe made our breakfast again, no eggs today either. We did have bread, apparently the bakery where most of the people get their bread had run out of flour so bread was in short supply. One of the other people we were talking to was complaining about not having bread. We walked over to the […more]
February 17, 2014 Varadero cigar shopping, La Campana, art galleries and back to pack
Pepe made breakfast this morning, No eggs, they couldn't find any. We had a long talk with Elisa and Pepe about food, distance, and some of our travels. It was one of our longest and nicest talks we have every had. Pepe doesn't want to buy cigars for us, it is too risky, most of […more]
February 16, 2014 Varadero
We woke Elisa at 8:30. Pepe got a call late last night and had to go to his parents house to help them, their fridge had died. So Elisa was holding down the fort. She normally doesn't do a lot of cooking, I think, Juan may have been recruited to help. Elisa and Pepe had […more]
February 15, 2014 Back to Varadero for a few days to relax and wind down.
Taxi to the bus station and back to Varadero. It took a different route to Varadero so we got to see new places along the way. Lots of cane, lots of food production. Bonnie saw a horse dead in it's traces on the road. That would have been a tragedy for the owner, replacing a […more]
February 14, 2014 People watching, impromptu street theatre, time to pack
We spent a lot of time in the park people watching. We were happy to see a bunch of impromptu street theatre. Stilt walkers, actors in costume, dancers. Lots of Cubans and lots of small children. We were surprised at how few tourists there were. We seemed to have one extra day at every stop. […more]
February 13, 2014 Iglesia del Carmen, Decorative Art Museum, more churches, and a chamber orchestra
We were off in search of Parque Turdury, beside Iglesia del Carmen. The church, Iglesia de Nuestra Senora del Carmen is the oldest church in Santa Clara, was closed. Beside the church is a monument to the 13 founding families and another to one of Che's most valued soldiers, killed in the train battle. Across […more]
February 12, 2014 The train museum, the Che with child statue, coffee, and the theatre.
When Che and a band of 18 men borrowed a bulldozer and with Molotov Cocktails derailed and defeated a heavily armed train with 350 soldiers on board, the Batista regime was toast. And so goes the story. The boxcar museum celebrates the place where the train was derailed, even the bulldozer (a Caterpillar D6) has […more]
