JULY 2009:
About to embark on an epic road trip to Cuba's biggest carnival! But first...after some brilliant diving last week, we headed to the Che capital of the world - Santa Clara. A rather quiet town, considering it's history, and aside from the impressive guevara monument and mainly photographic museum, a surprising lack of memorabilia. Another lovely casa here, with wonerful hosts who cooked up a real feast for us every night. The reaction last night at dinner when the subject of politics was breached was entirely classic, i'm beginning to think - that when confronted ont he subject, many (particularly older) cubans are very reluctent to answer questions directly. But then proceed with ' but in my opinion..........................' and so follows hours of fascinating thoughts and feelings. On sunday we stumbled across a beautiful hidden courtyard, filled with trees and wall paintings, and lots of oldies gentle moving their hips to some beautiful son! Which then developed into a very public salsa lesson for me and jessie, as a beautiful man guided us through some dances with a cigar in one hand. Brilliant.
Then made tracks for Trinidad - a truely beautiful town with small painted houses lining the hill down to a white sand beach. Again a very friendly casa - but sadly no home cooked meals available here, so surviving off the typical fried egg sandwich diet. More dancing here, this time on a rooftop over looking the town and sea with a rather handsome young man. Great scene at the Casa de la musica with different live bands all night every night, and a crazy club set deep inside a cave in the mountainside.
So now to Santiago. Everyone i've spoken to about the city says it is too hot, too busy and the most crime in Cuba. Bring it on.
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