Day 9 in Cuba was March 19.

I skipped the day excursions for a lot of laying in bed and just being alone. I needed to de-compress from being around so many people. I enjoyed my time doing nothing a lot. Doing nothing also meant watching TV.
Barcelona was playing!


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Day 8 in Cuba was March 18.

Today we headed to Guantanamo. The city, not the military base - which Cubans and others consider territory illegally occupied by the USA btw.

We stopped at the Casa del Changui for the first performance of the day - another Tumba Francesa group! (This was to be 3 of the 3 that exist in the country however I wouldn't be ( Read more... )

Day 7 in Cuba was March 17 ( Read more... )

So day 6... this would be March the 16th ( Read more... )

Baracoa! How amazing ( Read more... )

Woke up in Baracoa on March 16 to a lovely breakfast made by our hosts ( Read more... )

So I've fallen behind. I thought I would. There's been a lot of traveling happening and very little time to catch up between work and rest. So the posts may become a bit shorter. Hopefully not too sparse in detail because otherwise I'd just be tweeting all this. Since Cuba, I've been in Florida, then flew home. Then a weekend trip to New York and ( Read more... )

Woke up and headed to the rooftop to eat breakfast and enjoy the sunrise.
I got a couple of nice pano shots too!


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So onwards!
We then headed into the Los Hoyos area of town.
Conga las Hoyas makes sense for a name now, eh?
The place was called Foco Cultural, Conga los Hoyos.
And it was loud!


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Wow. We've done so much and we're only 4 days into this trip ( Read more... )