We
started off with a fine cool ride and then climbed up a high tower
built in the 19 c to check on slaves. Now it is a major tourist
attraction and surrounded by stalls of fine white tableclothes
painstakingly made at home by Cuban women. We also had a ride in an old
train this looked 19 century but had come from the USSR in 1970. The
ride up to lunch was through rolling countryside, a few cowboys were
riding round and we passed a state cattle farm. It was so hot that
we stopped at lunchtime. We then had a brief visit to Sancti Spiritus
where there were shops for Cubans to buy shoes and clothes.
Then on to Camaguey where we stayed in cell like rooms in colonial elegance.
Since
this an Aug holiday 85 percent of the group are teachers or students
and a quarter are Irish and bring a mellow humour... Age range 16 to 68.
Everyone seems easy going and we have gelled well. Our leader is a
black Cuban, his grandfather was brought over as a slave from Nigeria
which brings slavery to touching distance.
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