Trinidad, Cuba

Staying in a casa you can eat the meals cooked by them or go out to a restaurant, not really any opportunity to self cater. While eating en casa is safer it gets really expensive for five people, really boring, really quickly.
Second day. Derek is sick, nothing unusual there, we can eat the same meal and he will get sick and I will be fine. We were being very careful, washing our hands at every opportunity but I was not washing the dogs feet, so now Lucy also has to go through the whole hand/paw washing routine. We ended up carrying her to the patch of grass or into the main square where it was cleaner, before letting her out of her basket.

We had a look at the supermarkets to see if self catering was an option, the shelves were surprisingly empty, but most had lots of rum products, pasta, tomato pasta sauce, biscuits and other non fresh products. Bakeries were around and bread was cheap, for meat and eggs you quite often needed a coupon to be able to buy them. Most of the fresh produce was a bit worse for wear, and sold in open carts or windows. I was told it was all organic, and because they don’t use plastic wrap/covers it was open to fruit flies and the dog poop dust of the streets. (in Trinidad anyway, nothing a wash wouldn't fix). In Australia and I am sure in most western countries it would not even leave the farm let alone make it to the grocery shelves After being in the USA it was really refreshing to see the lack of plastic bags and the over packaging that we use.

Day at the beach, Playa Ancon, in old Pontiac car 1952. After our swim we asked the taxi diver to take us to a well known restaurant for Lobster seafood dinner - except Mack he had pork (usually very safe).
That night, Mack sick, good grief, lucky we brought anti-nausea tablets with us.
At this stage you are probably thinking - Ummmm Cuba! can’t wait to visit.
The plan in the first month was to get down to Santiago but transport is so expensive and our stomachs as it turned out seemed to be too weak. We decided to slowly head back north.
Trinidad is lovely, but if you have visited colonial cities in South America then It’s probably not that interesting.
In search of some sala dancing Derek and I went to the music plaza and another festival happening in town. There was music and dancing but only tourists practicing with Cuban tour guides/instructors.