eighth post

ok i got 30 mins ok comp access in cuba at dial up speed so couldnt update here

so i dont have alot of time so this will be brief.

got into cuba and spent one night i havana

nect day spend 155 on a taxi cause apparantly all buses in and out of havana were full booked for the next week. turned out the taxi ride was really nice. the driver pointed out stuff, bougt us an orange each and made sure we got to the right house cause some guy kept saying the he was the son of the owner of the casa we were suppost to stay at. i had no idea wat was going on cause i cant understand spanish the the taxi driver new it was a scam and took us to the right place. coincidently another aussie couple were staying in the same place in trinidade and they had to pay 268 for their taxi and the driver fell for the "hes my father" routine which we noticed was very common. oh and on the way there was a sing say w.bush.genocide@plan.hp

ok things done in trinidad, christman...smoked a cigar...it was ok. walked up a small moubntain that hada view of the city. Went horse riding through the mountians to a waterfall which was awesome. um walked arounf the town. the food was incredible for dinner and breakfast. fish rice soup vegentable and potateos for dinner and in the morning bread fruit omlete juice coffee. dinner was 8 and breakfast was three bucks.

Vinales. walked around the town. went on a hourse ride through tobacco fields. that lead to a cave which we walked through and at the end was a natural pool u cold swim in which of couse i did. road back through the tabbocco fields and smoked a vinalese cigar and had a rum drink in a grapefruit which was pretty nice. then a russian couple who went riding with us offered to take us to the beach for free. that was awesome and the beach was beautiful with white sand and clear blue water. next day went riding arounf vinalese and saw some maintian face that had been painted..it was a bit lame considering it wasnt anchient or anything but dont in the seventies.

Havana...not to much. found internet. but cause of news years eve a lot of the major measuems were closed and we could see them. on new years day everything was closed ioncluding the stall flogging of stuff to tourists. found an incredible chocolate shop there which had some of the best stuff i had ever had. saw the massive building with che´s face on it. infact saw che, fidel, camillo and marti´s facer EVERYWHERE plus viva la relociun and since 2009 is the 50 anniversairy of the revaloucion there was heaps of stuff about that.

in terms of food the places we stayed at which incredible...except the havana place wasnt so good. went out of new years and had lobster...which wasnt very well cooked....was a little disapointed. but we exchange five bucks of tourist money for the local peaso which meant we could buy local foods and super cheap (we only used about half of that in like three days). had some fried slices of potate, an 8 cent slize of pizza (with quality to match the cost). i also had a glass of wat i bleive was full of osters, which tomato juice, lime, tobasco sauce and a teaspoon of sault. disgusting but didnt go fluids to exploid from either end of my body.

trinidad and vinales were beautiful dispite tones of ferals disgusting dogs everywhere. havana was dirtier though and it stunk. dog crap everywhere as well as rotting food. the place is completely falling appart.

new years we a bit of a let down. the had an extravagansza thing for 120 bucks which wqe were like no wayyyy. fire works were ok.

um not much else to say generally...could put in more detail but dont have time....ask question about the communist haven if u want (apparantly putin was coming back to his roots or something and was suppost to be in cuba as the same time as us)

ice cream is cheap but njot very nice. oh and there are only two beers, crystal and bucanero which has a pirate on it...totally cheesy but oliver would love it.

oh and they have three wheeled cars like in mr been which was cooool.