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CUBAN MEMORIES (from Louise)

To my Cuban chums..........Feel free to add your own to this list and e mail this back to me! My lasting memories will be these......
 

Car in Trindad
  • 2 hours at immigration

  • "Manchester weather"

  • Oxen ploughing the fields

  • National public transport system of hitchhiking on the motorways

  • Motorway bridges with no roads over them, but used as huge bus shelters

  • Horse and trap coming down the wrong side of the motorway "It will be sunny tomorrow!"

  • Waves crashing over the seafront at Havana

  • Not being able to see Revolution Square through the rain

  • "My son Greg........"

  • Bubble taxis

  • Rice drying at the side of the road/motorway

  • Salad, pork, rice and beans, sickly sweet mango jam goo with a cheese slice

  • Cuban wine(-vinegar?)

  • Baby alligator, indian face painting - Crocodile poo(?), mad driver speed boat ride and Coconut drink on christmas day.

  • Kate's mini red santas decorations for our tables

  • Visiting special schools in Trinidad to give them some books

  • Cuba Libre and mojito cocktails

  • Salsa in Trinidad

  • Tour sponsored by Havana Club

  • "Where is the bus parked?" Ask the girls... Hungover tour guide and very poorly driver Yet another bank search

  • Nightclub in the caves - a lot of steps in and out!

  • Claire being carried home and put to bed after one rum too many....The runaway cow....was it real?

  • Sharing toilet experiences with Kate. Blocking our toilet and peeing in the shower

  • Towels and blanket sculptures - made into swans and hearts by the chambermaids

  • Another dollar tip ........ for another band . . . and another!

  • Toilet attendants dispensing toilet paper for tips

  • Room 38 complaining about our impromptu disco - "I will survive"

  • Frozen dancers in the pool on new years eve

  • The "canteen" at hotel Villa Cuba

  • The only dancing party in the disco - do we care?

  • The queue of male partners for Kate in the disco!

  • No hangovers for two weeks - and how?

  • 'Chase the mouse' or hair of the dog

  • Three dog sex romp in car park at the caves

  • Dayglo green and orange lycra and wiggling hips

And all the places.....

  • Pinar del Rio Cigar factory and rum tasting (and the bank of course!)

  • El indio limestone caves with boat trip and echo test!

  • Terrazas incestuous commune

  • Buena vista coffee plantation in the rain ...and seeing the Cuban national bird (The tocororo (Priotelus temnuros) is dubbed Cuba's national bird due to its red, white and blue plumage - the colours of the Cuban flag. ... )

  • The waterfall - brave Hilary and Steve!

  • The workers party at the swimming pool at Las Terrazas

  • Havana

  • Briefing by Panorama rep in howling gale. Moved indoors.

  • Magnificent Du Pont mansion at Varadero.

  • Pizza at Plaza Americas, Varadero.

  • Met Richard Hanning (old BP colleague) in Motorway Services car park!

    ......And cigars must feature somewhere!