Friday November 20, 2014

We were amazed at the breakfast table this morning, so much so we had to take photos. The best china and a great selection of food, cheese, meat, fruit a choice of fruit juices, coffee and eggs. Lovely.

I had to take photos of this great couple. Charel was shy at first but we persuaded her to have a photo taken.

We chatted to Gustavo and Charel (the casa owners) it was so interesting to hear that even the young people want to stay in Cuba and have a dream of owning their own business. Gustavo said he has had to sacrifice a lot to be able to buy things for the Casa. He works as a bike taxi driver and saves everything he earns to improve the casa. They have the drive and the will to succeed. The house was originally Charel’s, family home. I wish this couple all the best in their future endeavors and know they will succeed.

The ride was much the same as yesterday although it had a few more bends in the road. Because it was a short ride we got in to Camaguey before noon. I went into a tourist office to see about a casa and she called a couple of casas that she knew –they were full or didn’t have space for the bikes. I asked her to call the casa that Oscar had given us and he was waiting for us. It is nice and clean and has a lovely open-air patio.

We had arranged to eat at the casa, but after walking around the town we realized we should have eaten in the town. The food in the casa was very good and the right portion, but we know we can eat for less in the restaurants.

After dinner we spoke to the casa owner and his wife who made hair ornaments, they were very pretty but my hair isn’t long enough to wear them. The school girls are only allowed to wear the same colour hair thingy as the uniform they are wearing.

Tomorrow is a working day – cleaning the bikes, updating the blog. Sunday we will have a wander around the City.