Seachain an duine a bhíonn ina thost

Hallo,

We're posting from a hotel on the Playa Ancon because there's a big powercut in Trinidad. Bit like Castleconnell, really. We spent yesterday evening sitting in a restaurant chosen because they had a generator, being sung to by a lady with the most wonderful voice. We've bought a CD and everything.

Playa Ancon is beautiful -- all white sand and turquoise water just like you'd expect from a Carribean beach. It was quite cloudy and windy when we were here yesterday, but today it's very very hot. We managed to get sunburnt in the clouds yesterday, so we're going to have to be very careful today.

I like Trinidad. It's pretty with lots of pastel-coloured houses. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is nice for a town. It's got lots of tourists around the place which helps because although there are still lots of people hustling, if you say no they just move on to the next set of tourists.

Tomorrow we're going to Viñales, a village in the Pinar del Rio. It's quite a long journey there but we've managed to find a bus which will take us there in six hours instead of the nine it would take on the standard bus network. We'll probably spend Monday touring the area, then go back to Havana on Tuesday and fly home on Thursday.

I'll have to type up the diary I've been keeping when I get back -- it's much more detailed. Hasta luego!