 | Remedios, Cuba |
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... in my opinion - we were the much more grateful for having met this fantastic man. Unfortunately, our experience in Remedios made everything else - including the much-lauded and significant revolutionary city of Santa Clara - pale in comparison. Even ...
... For the rest of the Remedios stay I catch myself whistling it, singing it. "I'll never stop saying Maria!" I walk around Remedios alone a few times, getting offered a good time at one door, hearing Cuban polka music (!?) drifting out of a window further ...
... iron bars of our tourist cage and feel Cuba wash over us. Bicycles and horse-drawn carts form the main transport options in Remedios (along with walking, of course). Up to four people at a time wheel past on old bikes. Cuba imported thousands of bikes ...
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. ...
