Villa Pupi Y Norma Vinales

... offered to take me there on his bike. We were both taking a risk by doing this. His risk was perhaps losing his license because he was not allowed to ferry passengers (only registered taxis can do that). I was taking a risk because the bike was older then he was. Anyway, he was very pleasant and took me around to his family´s farm and then back to his house where his wife had prepared us a meal of fried snapper. Yummy. What a character.

... tour but they figured that they would run out of money in a couple of weeks because of the money they were spending on phone bills at $5.00 a minute. We spent about a half hour shooting the breeze and I let Michael try out my little toy bike. He was pretty impressed with that funny looking beast and after taking a few few pics we bade each other farewell as they continued their journey on to Los Terrazas. The scenery is breathtaking and I am in my element ...

... Cubanos!!! Tired, tired, TIRED!!

A while later we arrived at a river flowing into a Magote. At this point we were dying of the humidity, and heat and were smelling like a horses ass. A cave guide arrived with a couple of lanterns and we headed back with him into the cave. We saw a fair few stalactites and stalagmites. At the end of the cave we were invited to swim. I put on my costume and got into the very refreshing water making sure to keep well away from our ...

... Pupi y Norma - a fantastic family. I have collected some stuff and put their 'casa particular' on the map, knowing how dfficult it is for them to connect with the world villapupi.com please feel free to contact me for any advise warmest regards rossella

... of Vinales, which is a very small town in the valley of these rounded mountains. It has only one main street with a few dirt roads coming off of it. As the bus stopped and we got off, we were swamped with dozens of locals offering Casa´s to stay in. We originally ignored all of their shoutings and offerings to pick up our backpacks. However we were soon persueded by one that was offering 15 CUC for the both of us for a night only 3 minutes ...

... Maybe middle cass youth, in fact. Like at home in fact. The public could have been made up of Frenchies. I waited there a moment. Some people were dancing and others just hanging out. Others shaking their heads violently on the music. Limp Biskit, then Cranberries, then some death metal... Back to the casa de la musica, there was a brilliant concert, small audience, great singer, good music, with a Bolivian guest who played charango like mad, I loved every minute of it.

... lengthy single main street in search of the casa Leo had organised. There was a small snag as it was already full, but one of the girls in the family got in our car and directed us to the apartment building of some relatives a few blocks off the main street. It was a rudimentary three storey block of small, two bedroom apartments, each opening out onto a common front yard that was home to dogs, pigs and numerous free range hens and their chicks. Derek and ...

... required to load up with Cubans. This applies to anything with a blue licence plate as well -- trucks, vans, etc. At the edge of each city, transport officials check the dossier for all vehicles, and other officials make sure the queues of Cubans are loaded on vehicles in the correct order. Flores hands over his travel manifesto outside Havana. We enter the city from the west, so see for the first time the grand and spaced out mansions of Miramar, with its embassies and ...

... Julie annonces that Denmark is on her list of future holiday destinations. The Travel Plan is always a welcome topic of discussion (or rather, monologue), as not only is it funny to hear her ambitious and uneconomical plans, but it's a sure sign that things are good in the McClung view of the world -- otherwise she'd be plotting house renovations. So far this trip, she's mentioned her ambitions to: - hike the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland ...

... went in, it was so dark and the mud was very slimey. We walked through the underground river for quite a while, looking at clay and rock formations... incredible... The weather has been getting hotter I think. We waited four hours for a bus today to get back to Havana from Pinar del Rio. Luckily though, it started to rain really ******* the ride back and since all the windows were open, everyone got a little wet which was quite refreshing. From here on in ...