Sunday December 7, 2014

I woke up today with a slight fever. Our casa host gave me some paracetamol and I slept for a good portion of the day. I want to feelbetter tomorrow as we have some hills to climb and I need my strength. Although I have enjoyed Baracoa, I don’t really want to spend another day here, because I am looking forward to the week off the bike which will be next week in Santiago de Cuba.

I felt a little better in the afternoon and read one of the books we got from the casa in Banes.

I didn’t feel like eating much today, but knew I had to get some food inside me. We went out for lunch and then I came back to the casa again and slept some more.

Ralf went up to the expensive hotel for a wander around. He met two Cuban fellas who spoke very good German – Ralf is asked all the time if he is German, I guess his facial features give him away. He chatted to the guys for a while and asked them where they learnt their German. They learnt their German in the DDR, they were working their for 4 years, unfortunately half-way through their work they came back to Cuba for a visit and then the wall came down and they could not go back. They said a lot of things changed in Cuba when there was no more support from Russia.

I woke up again later in the afternoon and felt a little better. Ralf had gone to the pharmacy and got some moreparacetamol for me, it seemed to do the trick.

We went out for dinner and had a good plate of spaghetti.