Site's Sand and Sadle Sores!

Well, after over a week here in Cuba and my first official report under way im not entirly sure where to start, perhaps at the begining... or somewhere inbetween.

Arriving in Havana on the 5th, after a rather long and slightly tiring journey we settled into the heat pretty quick, arriving at our cassa run by Dr.Porro we were welcomed with mojitos all round then departed for a meal in china town, great little chinease eatery that seemed to specialise in itallian food's a plenty. After two days of exploring it was off to our next location, the somewhat laxidasical (scuse the spelling) town of Vinales.

Vinales was pretty interesting, we travelled to a rather remote little beach that was suposedley crowded... all of 15 people hardly seems that much of a crowd. Anywho, our time in Vinales was also filled with our first horse treck, pretty interseting actually, stopped off at a tobacco farm and cave and even learnt how to roll proper jobby cuban cigar's (Dad theres one winging its way to you soon). The streets of Vinales are filled with a certain unique charm, and one thing we had learnt by now was that it seems everyone in these little towns, really does know everyone.

Have i mentioned that the food here in cuba is fantastic, huge ginormous sized portions of everything, a rather chillie con carne flavoured bean soup (very tasty) sooooooooooo much fresh fruit and juice, im actually addicted to mango's now, ive started requiring a daioly fix of my new favourite fruit!

Slightly sidetracked there, but leaving the comfort of our friendly host Neryda in Vinales again we departed for a four day stop over in Trinidad (taking an 11hr 45min taxi ride by the way). Trinidad a town which holds a history in the production of sugar, and in which no matter what street you turn down, your pretty much going to bump into someone youve already bumped into just before. Not only that but the city of Trinidad is amazingly colourful, (like the rest of cuba so far), and really does live upto its clasification as a world heritage site.

Bring on two more trips to the most amazing beach ive ever seen so far(and some more sunborn for danny) and a rather cool horse treck along a rather close your eyes and dont look down cliffs edge trails... Well worth it though for a swim in an amazingly cool waterfall pool at the end.

But to round up our time in trinidad was a rather relaxing one filled wioth fun experiences, people and places such as a dog named "Corned Beef", some pretty funky Israeli's whom I spent numerous hours pondering the mysteries of the 'Cuban box' and dancing the night away inside a disco cave! (even though the music taste was attrocious).

Alas, now we are residing in Matanzas for the coming days, and its a bit of a shock again going from the quaint country relaxed life to the bustle of the city once again.

Cuba so far has been an vast assault on the senses, full of colour, life, amzingly cool cars, it has so far been one hell of a country, heck ive even started to pick up the lingo!

Hope all is well, catch you soon,
Danny!

ps. internet access so far here is rather scarce, so the updates will probably come once every week or so!