More from Santiago. A nice lady in the Internet café told me I had the face of “una muñeca”, which we think means doll, because I´m very pale like a china doll. That´s all very nice until you think that if you told someone black in the UK they looked like a Gollywog you´d be in BIG trouble.
Santiago much hotter than Havana. Day one here reinforced Noel Coward´s maxim that yes, truly only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. Subsequently we´ve been hiding out until the afternoon when it´s cooler, like today in the internet café. Discovered the Bacardi museum the other day which contains Cuba´s only mummy and other exciting things which Castro nicked off the Bacardi family when he came to power, which goes some way to explaining why they´re so mad at him. Also took a trip to the fort of del Morro, which was pretty amazing.
We´re staying in Santiago ´til Wednesday so we´ll catch a bit of the carnival, then we´re off to Trinidad which is in the middle of the island. As for the rest of today, we´re mostly planning on mojitos and cake, since it´s too hot for anything else.
Still haven´t found Irn Bru, but have found some orangeade called Naranja which is the same colour. I´ll just have to keep trying. Glaswegian lessons continue. Comrade Gregory particularly enjoys “bampot” and Comrade Davies “bolt ya rocket”. It´s a slow process… Laterz xxx
Santiago much hotter than Havana. Day one here reinforced Noel Coward´s maxim that yes, truly only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. Subsequently we´ve been hiding out until the afternoon when it´s cooler, like today in the internet café. Discovered the Bacardi museum the other day which contains Cuba´s only mummy and other exciting things which Castro nicked off the Bacardi family when he came to power, which goes some way to explaining why they´re so mad at him. Also took a trip to the fort of del Morro, which was pretty amazing.
We´re staying in Santiago ´til Wednesday so we´ll catch a bit of the carnival, then we´re off to Trinidad which is in the middle of the island. As for the rest of today, we´re mostly planning on mojitos and cake, since it´s too hot for anything else.
Still haven´t found Irn Bru, but have found some orangeade called Naranja which is the same colour. I´ll just have to keep trying. Glaswegian lessons continue. Comrade Gregory particularly enjoys “bampot” and Comrade Davies “bolt ya rocket”. It´s a slow process… Laterz xxx
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