16th October Trinidad, Cuba
The breakfast in the place is worth mentioning, I don’t think I ever had so many things for breakfast! There were freshly pressed pineapple juice, coffee, omelette, fresh fruits, pizza :) and some sandwiches, enough for us to take food for lunch and be staffed! After the fist we rented bicycles for 3 CUC (€2.50) per bike per day and headed south-east of Trinidad through a village called La Boca down to the sea. It took us about 30-40 min to get to an amazing spot by the sea. The pictures will say everything! We were on the beach alone, except for the guy who is looking after it. The water was crystal clear and the corals were just a few meters away from the beach. We snorkeled and sunbathed for the whole day.
Around 4 pm we decided to continue to our initial destination which was hotel Ancon, built by
the friendly Russian communists ;) When we got to the bikes a nasty surprise was waiting for us… my tire was completely flat as I managed to run over some metal thing. The guy looking after the beach was extremely helpful and offered to walk us to the nearest village, where he lives, to fix the tire. Unfortunately the nearest village was about 4 km away and the sun was blazing hot. We had a really nice talk with Eduardo on the way but the walk was truly exhausting. The great thing was he actually managed to fix our tire for free! We agreed that the following day we are going to meet again on the beach and he is going to cook some nice fresh fish for us.
When we got back we were so tired, we didn’t have enough will power to resist an offer of home-cooked meal from our hosts. This time we made sure that they only make one portion for us to share, so we would still be able to go out for a bit and see a bit of night life in Trinidad, well evening life really as we were once again too tired to stay out late. Believe me, the portion for one was really enough to feed the two of us, and we were hungry!
After dinner we headed out to casa de la musica which was not actually in the house but on one of the squares. The location was nice and music as well the only unpleasant thing was that they tried to cheat us once again ;) but this time we caught them in time! Getting more professional :)
