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Care free days in Cuba. 12th January 2020<\/p>\n

Trinidad, Santi Spiritus, established in 1850s<\/p>\n

Arrived in Trinidad, where our new Casa owners were waiting for us.
\nA lovely couple with no English so Google translate came in handy.
\nMain square was lovely, historic, clean and full of tourists, but the further away from the square the dirtier it got. We didn\u2019t do many of the excursions because they were really expensive for what they were. Our casa was on a main street so easy walk to town and interesting just to watch daily life.<\/p>\n

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Trinidad Casa<\/h3>\n
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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.
\nSecond 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

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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).
\nThat night, Mack sick, good grief, lucky we brought anti-nausea tablets with us.
\nAt this stage you are probably thinking - Ummmm Cuba! can\u2019t wait to visit.
\nThe 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.
\nTrinidad is lovely, but if you have visited colonial cities in South America then It\u2019s probably not that interesting.
\nIn 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.<\/p>\n

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On to Playa Larga
\nOur casa owner had a contact in Playa Larga and organised accommodation and a taxi for us to get there. It is safer to get the casa to organise your ride. I heard many stories of taxis not turning up, also the taxi has to be registered to transport tourists. The other problem some of the old taxis are just that old, windows don\u2019t work, no air con, windscreen wipers don\u2019t work, ok for short trips.<\/p>\n

Trinidad history in dot point
\n\u2022 In 17th century it was cut off from the colonial authorities in Havana which allowed it to became a haven for pirates and smugglers who conducted an illegal slave trade with British-controlled Jamaica.
\n\u2022 19th century, hundreds of French refugees fleeing a slave rebellion in Haiti arrived, setting up more than 50 small sugar mills. Sugar replaced leather and salted beef as the region's most important product.
\n\u2022 mid-19th century, the area around Trinidad was producing a third of Cuba's sugar.
\n\u2022 The boom ended during the Independence Wars, when the surrounding sugar plantations were devastated by fire and fighting.
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