Hotel Playa Coco Cayo Coco

... of a pedalo or a canoe to explore the crystal clear picture postcard waters. Snorkelling was also a habitual practice along with drinking rum punch, speaking Spanish to the hotel staff and eating the amazing food. The real Cuba would come in a week's time.<br>

... entered.<br><br>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 ...

First time off the North American continent, in the 1970s. Loved the palm trees and the Caribbean white sand and clear blue ocean. No big hotels on the beach in the 70s: now it's a major tourist destination, so I'm glad we enjoyed it before the Americans snuck in!

... of just over $1, which fed us all for lunch and then some! We ate them by the side of the road while looking across fields of tobacco crop - I never realized they were such small plants with such big leaves! The drive was very scenic and took us to some villages that rarely see tourists - we got quite a few stares! We took a road less travelled up through the mountains and stopped at the crest where a cute little wooden bar was conveniently located, so we sat ...

... made reservations for dinner at the Sun King on deck 11:- 2 hours of individual attention and fancily displayed food, I had Surf and Turf, Gary did fillet Mignon. Dessert was a chocolate lovers delight, even the Troll loved it. We then spent the evening packing our suitcases to leave outside our room by 11PM so stewards could take them all down at night and group by debarkation numbers.

... couldn&#8217;t begrudge them for that. And then, as the last of the procession finally passed us, about four or five tourists dancing and waving a Polish flag disrespectfully went to join the end of the parade before being yelled at to stop, and I wondered if we were to be tarred with the same brush and were going to be yelled at too. <br><br>When back at the casa enjoying a late breakfast we listened to the radio coverage of the mother-of-all marches in the ...

... for a month. Why they have a guard and museum staff posted at the open door to tell everyone this, instead of just closing the door, is anyone's guess. I stressed my back the first morning here, probably as a result of too much gear on my back going to the bus depot in Trinidad and too much horsing with Jonathan. I have to lay about relaxing for the better part of the day. It's really not much different once my back feels better. We spend days lazing about our ...

I wake bewildered, a truck rumbling past my head. Strange walls, heat. Cuba, it suddenly occurs to me. But in the predawn, it's not the island but dead classmates that occupy me. Mark Crawford, a high school character, died the day we left on our trip. As I packed clothes, blood packed in his head, an aneurysm. What can you say about someone? Does a catalogue of features, shared experiences, convey anything real ...

... beautiful tiled floors and ceilings that stretch over 20 feet above us. As the Lonely Planet says, this is a new casa run by "nice young hosts" Frank and Arelys. We share an inner courtyard with their family and their birds and turtle. Cubans seem slightly pet obsessed. We don't enter a single home during our stay that doesn`t have fish, birds, turtles or some other animal roaming about. The worst ...

Cayo Coco punished us for intrusion firstly with news of Australia's disgracefull elimination from the WC. On seeing my Ozzy flip flops and Gus' Fosters t shirt we were instantly ment with an onsluaght of opollogetic Cubans pretending to be equally disgusted with the unspeakable call. That day was needless to say named Gallagers to Italians day, unfortunetly we didnt find many in Cuba so Nole and Liam remained on good behavior. The beauty of Cayo Coco (which is a small island in the ...