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Baracoa part 2 - let's get political!
... casa owner had Internet. She was using it for skype and her daughter was using Facebook."
Cubano: "Yeah but who was she? It costs 70 CUC a month here for internet. Was she a doctor? Ordinary people could never afford it.The Government says we are equal but really there are tiers of people here. At the top there are the casa particular owners. Sure, they have to pay their tax to the Government but they can charge 25 CUC a night ...
Baracoa - Yum.
... our casa each morning.
Baracoa is the first place in Cuba where we've checked out some nature. Nearby Parque Alejandro Von Humboldt has many endemic species. We saw a tiny frog (guide said only 8.5mm fully grown though the photo link says 7mm) and a tiny hummingbird. Also snakes, millipedes and the Cuban national bird (it's ...
Baracoa - oppsummert
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Manolo, soennen i huset, var mye sammen med oss hele oppholdet. Med 5 aars ingenioerutdanning burde han kanskje ha noe mer vettugt aa gjoere, men det er knapt ordentlig jobb aa faa her for denslags. Han kunne ha jobbet paa en fabrikk eller tilsvarende, og tjent ca. 300 kr. / mnd. paa det, men med slike loenninger velger han like gjerne aa holde seg hjemme i Baracoa for aa proeve aa faa mer ut av turismen sammen med familien. At det ikke er bare bare ...
Vi drar til Baracoa
Rundturen vår denne uken kommer til å gå fra marinaen til Baracoa, videre til Santiago de Cuba, og så til Holguin, før vi treturnerer til marinaen neste søndag, kanskje via Guardalavaca, nå forhåpentligvis med tredjemann på slep. Puh.
Vi forlot båten ca. kl. 11 mandag morgen. For første etappe, til Baracoa, valgte vi taxi. Avstanden er intet mindre enn 32 mil.
Javisst, 32 mil.
Med mine 189 cm. i baksetet på en koreansk riskoker, blottet for støtdempere allerede ...
Salsa!!
... is still not that good, so we never did find out how he new we were coming! We followed him through a warren of back streets and soon arrived at his house, a two story building. We dropped our bags on the first floor where we would be staying and headed up to the roof terrace where Delvis (Andres wife) brought us a drink. The view was cool. Baracoa lay at our feet and there wasn't a building higher than ...