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Travel Blogs from Santiago de Cuba
Festival de Caribe
... guy, then we wanted to get some food so this rusta guy took us to a few places but they all said they were shut so we could never get in, we finally got rid of him and went back to one of the restaurants and then they let us straight in. So the locals must know him around town. The pizza was **** but it only cost us $1.25 even though the chick tried to rip us off and make us pay $4 but we caught her out.
The last day we just chilled ...
Mambo, que rico el Mango!
... dulce. Si era cierto, teníamos que probar.
Punto aparte, probamos los Mangos más ricos del planeta! Hay distintos tipos, chiquitos como gotas de miel que se llaman Toledo, otros carnosos que se llaman corazón y nuestra perdición: los mangos Bizcochuelo. Quizás es como morder 3 duraznos en almíbar a la vez, pero mejor! La cosa es que en la ruta nos compramos algunos para traer al hogar habanero y sus allegados pero cuando volvimos ...
HELPING THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
... de Cuba.
Most went back on the bus at 1300. I went to the Museo de Ambiente HIstorico with Red 9 CUC re 2 entry tickets and a camera ticket. The place was good with several centuries of history. Red probably would not have walked around alone, leery of loiterers [where is the 'traveler' claim?].
Walked down toward the wharf area, Red getting some buns. She seems to revel in such cheap meals. We did meander ...
Cuba 101
... Rosaura got strangely possessive which weirded me out a little.
Her father and his family (wife, grandma, four or five kids) are of the poorest of the poor and spending time in their shack was a truly unique experience which I still can't believe I had. The house was a battered wooden shack with a small dirt courtyard out front sided by crumbling concrete walls. It housed (from my estimates) seven in a total house space equivalent to ...
Bilos og vilde motorcykler
... tilbage til vaerelset hos Marlon. Naar man kom hjem om aftenen, kunne man faktisk smage al smoggen, hvis man slikkede sig om laeberne.
Men nok om det, for selvfoelgelig var der ogsaa en masse fede ting ved Santiago, og bl.a. dens vigtige betydning under revolutionen, var noget man tydeligt kunne maerke, at folk var stolte over. Det var her den cubanske revolution fik sin spaede begyndelse, da Fidel Castro og hans sympatisoerer angreb Moncadakasernen, og derved aabnede ...