Islazul Hotel Camaguey

14-12-2008: omstreeks 16:00 pm aangekomen in Camaquey waar dezelfde taxi-chauffeur me stiond op te wachten als de vorige keer en tesamen met twee spaanse dames richting centrum gereden. Eert de dames afgezet en toen werd ik afgezet bij een andere casa waar ik heen wilde. Dit scheen de casa van haar broer te zijn ende kamer waar ik oorspronkleijk heen zou gaan zou al bezet zijn door twee ...

... te zijn die mij met zijn oldtimer naar de casa bracht en hiervoor 4 cuc wilde hebben. Beetje apart maar de kamer ziet er meer dan prima uit en ook het echtpaar is zeer aardig. Zij spreken alleen geen woord engels maar dat is voor mij weer een goede reden om mijn spaans te oefenen. Camaguey ligt midden een een groot ...

... late night bar in Holguin". It was ****, and I ended up getting a bit stroppy until we left and hit the 24hr bar by the pool in the hotel. That was a bit better, before having a drunken swim until 4.30am in my boxers! After about 5 hours sleep we were up and on our way to Camaguey to drop the girls off for a coach to Cayo Coco for a few days (via Cielo de Avila). We stopped of at a random restaurant en route and I had ...

... a taxi driver and his mates when we asked for a particular plaza so he took us in his taxi for 15 mins only to find out later when he had dropped us off the place was just around the corner. Haha. Enough. The revolution. There are numerous reminders of the revolution and the leaders Castro and Guevara. There are pictures of Che all over the place. We went to the Revolution museum in Havana, highly propagandist of course but very interesting although there are only so many ...

... that we had been given the name of casa something, but never reserved anything there. A dark look from the boy, and he goes away. By the time we had got to our casa, the owner of casa something, alerted by his son on the bike, was right behind us, and started a drama. We were not involved, of course: the matter was that we were supposed to go to casa something, and that lady took us somewhere instead. Big big big problem. Shouting and everything. A BREACH in the code of conduct ...

... parameter of necessity. This understood, my problem was that THEY would trick you into a "I am nice - you need me - I need your dollars - I serve you" scheme, and then once they got all they could from it they would get mad at that roleplay in which they had had to abandon their pride. At that point they loose their respect to others and therefore you come to question their self-respect all along the process. It was NOT NICE to start understand all that, especially ...

... too mobile, too impossible to reason with, too ready to shove everything in their mouths. The only way I can imagine this working well is if you move somewhere for a chunk of time where you would feel comfortable with food (and whatever else) being eaten off the floor. Toddlers -- 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years old Once kids have walking and other basic motor skills pretty well mastered, they become easier than a ...

Camaguey is an old city which was primarely built at the sea side by Diego Velazquez. But the Pirates of the Carribean (mostly English....) were veryfierce at attacking the poor city, so they moved it into inlands. This didn't work either, because pirates attacked it anyway. Our hosts of the city were Carolina and Reyes. The one who watches Brasilian soap operas in thisfamily is Reyes, so Luciana had to tell them what will happen next in "La señoradel Destino". Carolina ...

... at 4 so even if the shuttle were there, we'd still be a bit late. However, it didn't take too long to rustle one up and although we were probably one of the last to check in, we were still in plenty of time. Flight went straight to Camaguey and after a quick disembarkation we were out near the two waiting buses. Glitch numero dos! Our hotel wasn't open and we were to go to another hotel. However this particular glitch turned out to be a bonus since the new ...