The Caribbean, Cricket, Cuba Communism and Crashes
I said goodbye to the lads and took a hideous night bus through to Caracas the capital of Venezuela to meet Sam for a month of cricket and Cuba. By the way Venezuela is an incredibly beautiful country. However, Caracas is a complete hole, possibly worth a day but no more, unfortunately due to the beaurocracy of the country it took Sam and I a few days to get things sorted for out tour so had to spend three days there.
Still of the Caribbean we went. The food was brilliant, the sea was fantastic the weather was great, the sand was golden and the cricket was……………poor. We only saw one match that wasn’t one sided when we beat the Windies on the penultimate ball of the match, it was incredible, probably the only time cricket can beat football for tension. And of course the Aussies won, there are head a shoulders above the other teams and totally deserved to win. Just hope that in four years time the other countries have raised their game to standard of the boys in yellow and green.
And so to Cuba, man what a stranger place. I’ve just spent three weeks there but have no idea how it works or what’s going on. Habana has got to be the coolest city I have ever been to, beautiful people awesome but crumbling architecture, great music, we went to Club Tropicana the oldest club in Habana since 1939 for some cabaret and those of you who know your Wham will be pleased to hear that indeed drinks were free.
We went to the coast for diving where we managed to put out hire car into a ditch and then be towed out by a passing bus. When Sam left for London I travelled down to Santa Clara to see the Che memorial and then on to Cienfuegos and Trinidad, one of the prettiest places I’ve visited. But the countries strange, well strange to this westerners eyes. Two bus companies, one for locals and one for gringos, two types of money again same sort of split. Some incredibly lovely people and some total bastards. I think it will take me a while before I get my head round Cuba.
I said goodbye to the lads and took a hideous night bus through to Caracas the capital of Venezuela to meet Sam for a month of cricket and Cuba. By the way Venezuela is an incredibly beautiful country. However, Caracas is a complete hole, possibly worth a day but no more, unfortunately due to the beaurocracy of the country it took Sam and I a few days to get things sorted for out tour so had to spend three days there.
Still of the Caribbean we went. The food was brilliant, the sea was fantastic the weather was great, the sand was golden and the cricket was……………poor. We only saw one match that wasn’t one sided when we beat the Windies on the penultimate ball of the match, it was incredible, probably the only time cricket can beat football for tension. And of course the Aussies won, there are head a shoulders above the other teams and totally deserved to win. Just hope that in four years time the other countries have raised their game to standard of the boys in yellow and green.
And so to Cuba, man what a stranger place. I’ve just spent three weeks there but have no idea how it works or what’s going on. Habana has got to be the coolest city I have ever been to, beautiful people awesome but crumbling architecture, great music, we went to Club Tropicana the oldest club in Habana since 1939 for some cabaret and those of you who know your Wham will be pleased to hear that indeed drinks were free.
We went to the coast for diving where we managed to put out hire car into a ditch and then be towed out by a passing bus. When Sam left for London I travelled down to Santa Clara to see the Che memorial and then on to Cienfuegos and Trinidad, one of the prettiest places I’ve visited. But the countries strange, well strange to this westerners eyes. Two bus companies, one for locals and one for gringos, two types of money again same sort of split. Some incredibly lovely people and some total bastards. I think it will take me a while before I get my head round Cuba.
Pics: Our car in a ditch in Cuba, cricket in Grenada, Sun set in Genada, The Cricket World Cup and a Trombonist on the Malecon in Habana Cuba
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