by Ruth McDonald | Mar 4, 2023 | 2023 Cuba |
Dump road I love Cuba, but it isn’t always easy. Independent travel here is very doable, but I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone. The food shortages are the hardest on the locals, but they are felt by everyone who is not staying at a resort. The Cubans are so...
by Ruth McDonald | Mar 2, 2023 | 2023 Cuba |
The birds we have seen and heard along the Bay of Pigs has been outstanding. Up until yesterday we were lucky enough to see most of Cuba’s endemic birds, with the exception of the Cuban parrot. Gord continues to add that we also haven’t seen an iguana, but I don’t...
by Ruth McDonald | Feb 24, 2023 | 2023 Cuba |
The final major battle of the Cuban Revolution was fought in the city of Santa Clara. Under the command of Che Guevara, 340 guerrillas engaged government forces about ten times as large. In an incident that is well remembered in Cuba, a small band of the rebels...
by Ruth McDonald | Feb 23, 2023 | 2023 Cuba |
Yesterday I gave some ibuprofen capsules to a woman working at the art gallery next to our casa particular in Remedios. Her knees were swollen with arthritis, and she was telling us that she can’t get anything for them. I had read before I arrived in Cuba that...
by Ruth McDonald | Feb 19, 2023 | 2023 Cuba |
We have climbed up to Topes de Collantes, at 750 metres in the Escambray Mountains. The road up was as much as a 22% grade, but we were both able to stay on our bikes for the whole climb. This was partly thanks to our lovely adopted son Albert, who offered to carry my...
