All the tourists we met said how much they liked Vinales so we were looking forward to it. It was lovely to be in the country, tobacco fields, chickens, pigs, cows and horses. On the way into town we stopped at a tobacco farm and tried the Cohiba cigars. Our casa was lovely, …
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Playa Larga, Cuba
A smaller village, less tourists, more dirt roads and cleaner. Lovely casa, great meals and very colourful bedrooms.We didn’t eat in the casa that much as it was $10 to 12 CUC each for a huge casa meal. Down the road for $5CUC you could get a fresh whole fried fish caught that morning in …
Trinidad, Cuba
Care free days in Cuba. 12th January 2020 Trinidad, Santi Spiritus, established in 1850s Arrived in Trinidad, where our new Casa owners were waiting for us. A lovely couple with no English so Google translate came in handy. Main square was lovely, historic, clean and full of tourists, but the further away from the square …
Havana Cuba 6th January 2020
I booked the casa on Airbnb in Florida, Pedro and Marilys the managers offered to send a taxi to pick us up and show us where to get a sim card (we needed this for school) and CUC money. The taxi driver was waiting for us with our name on a card. We were a …
Florida Everglades, USA
The Florida Everglades were much more interesting than I thought they would be. Firstly, the Miccosukee Indian Tribe We wanted to visit the Miccosukee who live in the Florida Everglades because they were having their annual arts and craft festival on the last week of the year. Like a lot of First Nations casinos they …
Florida Keys, USA
We wanted to leave the caravan somewhere so we could go to the Florida Keys for Christmas. Of course all the Keys RV parks were full so we had to try and free camp somewhere….. semi-legal and without the caravan it would be a lot easier. We found a space in the Florida City trailer …
North Florida, USA
First stop – Cape Canaveral – 16 Dec 2019. Space-X (CEO Elon Musk) was having a launch that night off Cape Canaveral something we all wanted to see, but mainly Derek being our techie guy. With rocket launches, there are two stages. The first stage- the bottom half detaches and lands on the ship or …
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. USA
Taking this down time to catch up with posting photos. John Denver put this area on the map for us. Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River, ….. so we had to drive south to Florida via Virginia – the skyline drive and the Blue ridge Park Way. Obviously, playing John Denver all …
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Dear Diary Readers, A thanks giving rehearsal
Jos comic strip about a frozen turkey we found on a Walmart parking lot island. We drove into Walmart and parked right beside a half frozen turkey and box of noodles. If we had taken it back to the shop they would have just thrown it out, so we waited for the owners to return. …
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Washington DC, USA
My favourite USA city so far. I am getting very behind in our travel diary, better start posting photos before I forget where they were taken, the whole point of this website. There is only one RV park close to Washington DC, it is lovely but expensive, the other cheaper State park was under renovations, …