Finca Horizontes Maria Dolores Sancti Spiritus

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For a Sunday, in a Catholic country, the square was going off. We walked straight through it and took some photos of the city first. It was kind of similar to Trinidad, but smaller and not hilly. There was also a mega posh hotel, so Lucy used the facilities. The people inside didn't seem to mind, we seemed to be the only tourists in town !!! She did report back that they were exceptionally clean, had soap and even the toilet paper was ...

... kropastaan, naisilla meikkia loytyy naamasta -jos on aikaa ja energiaa trimmata yli 50 vuotta vanhaa suurikulutuksellista autoa (joka on yksityiskaytossa) ei voi ihan nalkaa nahda. Lopuksi voidaan todeta reissun peruslakien mukaisesti: "kuuba on kuuba kuubalaisille" meille muille se on suht kallis lomakohde, jonka antimista ja tunnelmasta on oiva nauttia, rahan tuoma nautinto kannattaa unohtaa, paras tapa tehda se on luopua pesoistasi -mahdollisimman rivakasti! Niin me teimme. -M-

... footpaths were so crammed with onlookers it seemed that a quarter of all the town’s residents were out to watch the annual march – and the other three quarters were actually in it. As well as the lead group of participants attached to local associations waiting at the beginning of the main road, thousands more marchers waited in the many intersecting streets along Calle José Martí’s length with flags, banners, placards and balloons and a ...

... ca em permet aussi de synthetiser, d analyser, de voir mon voyage sous un autre angle. en tout cas c est un voyage particulier puisque pas axe sur le tourisme et assez interessant. merci elisabeth pour ta fidelite tu es toujours presente, pour tous mes blogs. je voudrais ajouter des sourires quand j ecris mais je ne trouve pas les deux points lol j espere que tout le monde va bien en france, ici il fait toujours aussi chaud, c fou, dire qu on est en hiver ...

... pas pouvoir donner de nouvelles plus souvent, j espère que vous ne pensez pas que je ne pense pas à vous, car ce n est pas vrai. J ai essayé d envoyer des textos mais n ai pas eu de réponses pour tous même si je reçois un accusé de réception. Je ne sais donc pas si vous les lisez. Pour julien, pour le retour je crois que ca ira au fait, je pourrai rentrer avec les filles du voyage. Enfin on en ...

... l ordinateur, où on lance la connexion et où on peut écrire son message... Bon j ai déjà réussi a envoyer le dernier message écrit vendredi mais ça m a pris une heure donc je vais arrêter la, je reviendrai peut être ce soir. Vive les moyens de communication à cuba !!! Bon alors poursuivons mes commentaires sur cuba. Je disais donc que nous allions a Trinidad ce week end et je vais vous raconter donc mon week end a Trinidad. Nous sommes partis avec la ...

... something prohibido. The coaches are meant for Cubans only. Miguel has plastic tarps down the sides as a partial screen, but the blonde kid delightedly chatting about the horse at the top of her lungs in English screams Tourist. When we get to a main road, he slows down, scans ahead, then turns the horse around and up a different side street. Policia. ** Julie strikes up a conversation with two hotties from Turkey at the bus depot. She's ...

... domino games, lovers. Lucy joins Cuban kidlets for a ride in one of the goat-drawn carriages that circumnavigate the square. The impressive buildings the goat passes include a vast theatre, a library with special collections (it's a university town) in the old provincial palace and a fine arts museum. We weave north in the shade of the huge columns to the pedestrian walkway along Independencia. Unlike central and old Havana, peso and convertible ...

... gone. Twenty minutes. I wander to the other entrance a few times. Finally a big guy leaning against a wall says ¨Mahkol¨, but when I turn he´s not making eye contact. ¨¿Como se llama?¨produces an admission that he is in fact Hermes, but after waiting for him to move or something for a few minutes, I say ¨¿Remedios?¨ Pause. ¨Si.¨ Pause. ¨¿Vamos?¨ Pause. ¨Soon.¨ Non-plussed, I return to Julie. Yes, it´s the right guy, but he´s the least ...

... in Spain) but it was far from laughing I was doing when I arrived. I understood about 60% of what they said, they understood less of what I tried to say! So my advice is defo...you may not be able to walk the walk or dance the dance...but try your bestest to talk the talk! sad joke I know! 5) My last and most important piece of advice is defo to buy another book on Cuba other than the Lonely Planet 2004 edition. This book was useful for its maps but the author was either a ...