Today we had breakfast at our Casa Particular. The couple that own ours don’t speak any English, but they’re really beautiful. We had fun playing charades at breakfast trying to figure out what questions the lady was trying to ask us! Eventually we had lots of fruit, some ham, cheese and bread, and then some scrambled eggs. Yum!
At 8am, our group drove for an hour before catching a one hour ferry to the island of Cayo Levisa. Rob and I enjoyed watching the crabs run around in the mud while we waited for the ferry.
Once we arrived on the island, we walked through an area that was covered with mangroves before reaching the beach. We staked out some sun lounges and we were set. We started the day wondering how on Earth we would pass six hours at the beach, but it went very quickly! The weather was beautiful – sunny, a slight breeze. The water was beautiful blue and a pretty good temperature. Rob and I played a game with some of the others with a ball where we tried to keep it out of the water as long as possible. I swam for a fair while and had fun watching the brown pelicans dive bomb into the water to catch fish. They really go for it, the splash is huge!!
We had a couple of drinks throughout the day, and what we are quickly discovering here in Cuba is that no alcohol is measured. At home, measuring cups would be used and you get exactly one shot of whatever is in your drink. When I ordered a mojito today, the bartender free poured the rum into my drink while watching the baseball. Literally ¾ of my drink was rum!! While this might sound like good value, I’m actually finding the drinks are too strong and I can’t enjoy them as much. So a couple of the people in our group that speak Spanish have started asking for a bit less alcohol. What a strange turn of events – Australians, Irish and Poms asking for less alcohol in their drinks!!
Our lunch was included today and it was a yummy buffet at the beach. Afterwards, I walked up to a nearby pier. Ben from our group was kayaking nearby so took some cool photos of me on the pier from the water. Once he left, I sat for a while and just took it all in. It was such a beautiful day.
We caught the 5pm ferry back and then drove back to Viñales in the dark. There were no street lights – our driver José did a great job!
Dinner was at a tapas restaurant, and then the English, Irish and Aussies went out dancing again to the local salsa bar. We went last night too. Tonight we actually danced though and it was lots of fun! The live music was great, the cigarette smoke not so much!
Love to all,
Claire
Xoxox
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