A sunny morning, breakfast at the hotel…..regular fare and we are on our way…..today we are driving to San Antonio to see the Alamo and visit the Riverwalk, have lunch and then drive for 3 hours to San Angelo…….should be a fun easy day ! A smooth trip into San Antonio, parked our vehicle and…Continue Reading “USA Roadtrip Day 3….Gonzales TX > San Antonio > San Angelo”
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A bit of gong show this morning as we woke very early to a thunder and lightning show, the plan being to start driving as soon as we could finish breakfast….small problem was that the time had changed in Tallahassee yesterday and hence we were an hour early…haha the joke is on us !! Today…Continue Reading “USA Roadtrip Day 2……..Mobile, Ala to Gonzales,TX”
Our two months of indolence at our x-condo (sold) on Manasota Key (Englewood, Florida) is over and the work begins. We have rented a car which we will drive from Florida to our home in Madeira Park B.C. The plan is to get an early start and with a beautiful sunrise we are on our…Continue Reading “USA Road Trip …Day 1”
March 29 A beauty of a morning……..yes, I know, those who have read our blogs, we are always complaining about great weather…..yes, it is arrogant !!! Sonia welcomes us with us a nice breakie and we talk a bit about their life…..her husband is a professor fluent in 4 languages, but is working in a…Continue Reading “Varadero to Habanna ……and back to the world”
VARADERO SOME HISTORY………….. It’s about 5 hours northeast of Cienfuegos. The American mafia wanted to build a stretch of casinos from this peninsula all the way to Havana – so naming it the Casino Coast. However, when Castro took control from the corrupt Batista, he kicked the mafia out, who then started Las Vegas in…Continue Reading “Cienfuegos to Varadero”
CIENFUEGOS SOME HISTORY………….. Cienfuegos, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is located about 250 km from Havana and 85 kilometers from Trinidad with a population of 150,000. The city was built on a peninsula on the Bahia de Cienfuegos, and has been dubbed La Perla del Sur (South). It was originally…Continue Reading “Trinidad to Cienfuegos”
March 24 Having decided to meet up with Andy we wandered down to his Casa but could not get in …most casas have grates and pretty heavy-duty doors, often without doorbells, so knocking and yelling are the go to plays. In any event we walked around a bit checking out his “hood”….. and came back…Continue Reading “Trinidad ……a Playa Ancon beachday”
March 23 We woke to the hysterical calls of the local roosters and the clippity clop of the horse carts on the street below …the dudes driving them looked like real life cowboys, albeit with a modern touch ……. bluetooth earpieces !! As usual, we heard the shouts of various vendors as they walked/biked or…Continue Reading “Trinidad…….touristing chores & plain old touristing”
TRINIDAD SOME HISTORY………….. Founded in 1514, Trinidad located some 260 km SE of Habana quickly grew and later prospered in a princely fashion from the sugar-cane industry concentrated in the outlying Valle de los Ingenios. The sugar boom that took root by the mid-1700s created a coterie of wealthy local sugar barons, who built…Continue Reading “Habana to Trinidad…….. and an afternoon walkabout”
March 21 Nice morning and same breakie…..decided to skip going to Hemingway’s house in the country ….bus ride seemed rather impractical and the taxi service was a little expensive given that you cannot go into the house but only look through the windows. Our casa owner Yali showed up and we made arrangements for a…Continue Reading “Habana Hop/Off Tour”