Feliz Navidad
Trip Start
Nov 13, 2005
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Trip End
Jul 13, 2006
Trinidad,
Cuba
Sunday, December 25, 2005
We found a really nice Casa Particular family to stay with who had the cutest little sausage dog (3 months old). The casa grandmother cooked us the best eggs every morning - absolutely perfectly round and perfectly cooked. The casa mum cooked us the best meals (its cheaper to eat in casa particulars than in restaurants). For 9us we were eating a three course bonanza complete with huge grilled lobster tail each.
Trinidad is actually quite touristy, but in some sense you dont really notice the tourists so much because they usually return to their resorts on the sea edge after nightfall. Nights were spent in numerous bars enjoying the live bands, some playing originals and the other playing covers that got the crowd going. Nightly at the casa de la musica all the cubans would come out to dance salsa and the sleezy guys would use their dancing skills to get all the travelling girls to dance with them. It was rather funny and although I danced with many of the guys initially, I much prefered to dance with samson than have a sleezy cuban sleezy up on me - even though most of the time they were better dancers! One night, together with a group of Sweeds we manged to find a discoteq that was the best in town hidden away up a hill out of town-- IN A CAVE: and when i say a cave i literally mean a cave you climb down into that im most other countries would be a protected heritage site. Needless to say the crowd was happy, everyone was dancing wildly and we have a crazy night in the cueva.
Christmas day initially seemed a little uneventful. It had rained, so most of the day was spent in, and a short trip after lunch to grab food stumbled us past a house where salsa music was being played. After dancing from the street, we were called into the house to dance with the 3 old couples that were dancing and drinking alot of rum. A few more swigs of rum later and after we danced with everyone swapping partners after each song, the oldies (one of the guys dressed in all white with a beret who was about 50 was still so smooth!) invited us to a party with live music down the road. Apparently when we arrived there we realised that it was an exclusive cuban party, but we were the special guests of the ¨cool dude¨ in town who happened to know everyone. We spent the rest of the afternoon drinking too much rum, dancing salsa to one of the best live bands we saw.. It was so funny since the ladies all discovered that Samson could lead and swing them around, they were all literally lining up to dance with him. He couldnt even get a songs rest before another lady dragged him up on the dancefloor. Our only claim to fame that night was that heaps of tourists that we´rent allowed into the casa were taking photos of us from the outside dancing with these oldies!!
A few days in trinidad we spent a playa anacon, which is a beautiful carribean beach a short taxi ride away. I felt so much more at home with my new bikini purchased in mexico since it didnt seem as if i were the most covered person on the beach anymore (everyone wears g string bottoms!!)
