Cuba libre

Made it out of Cuba in one piece and with the shirt still on my back. The second week was much, much better than the first...

Some of the highlights of Cuba include:
- Cigars that cost 7p
- Buying knock-off Cohibas from people who work in cigar factories
- Warm blue seas, beautiful white sand beaches and having your beach towel stolen by pigs and/ or chickens in the jungle behind
- The music
- The rum (some of which also costs about 7p, while Havana Club Blanco costs 2GBP a bottle)
- Very, very occassionally the Cuban people. If you get as far as Baracoa, which is as far from Habana as it´s possible to get, and then cycle 20km along a dirt road, across rivers and through coffee plantations, then you may just meet some.

This began to make up for the terrible food, the relentless hustlers, the grinding poverty and the general sense of despair and isolation. But it still felt more like a challenge than a holiday, one that I was lucky enough to share with plenty of other travellers saying the same thing. None of them said they´d be going back. Think I might be, one day.

Great to be back in Mexico though - feels like home. Next stop Belize.

Comrade Tony, still waiting for the revolution.