6/10/05

…um… Hey muchachos…

…er… It’s 9am and we are currently sitting in the departure lounge in Cancun Mexico in transit from Havana and I’m typing this travellog on only 3 hours sleep whilst trying to ignore the vomit smell wafting from Avril’s hair… and it doesn’t really help that I am still a bit drunk too, so excuse me if I slur my typing or throw up on the keyboard…

Yep… once again we defied all logic and hit a salsa club on the night before having to get up at 4.30am to catch a flight… we REALLY are complete dumbf’ucks…

Actually, we both had half a bottle of rum each in 1 hour on empty stomachs, so Avril passed out after vomiting into her hair, …and the silly girl left me to hold it together and pack our backpacks when all I wanted to do is pass out too!!!

… and so 4 hours ago just as we arrived at the Havana airport I lost it COMPLETELY and totally ended up VOMITING MEGACHUNKS into some poor worker’s wheel barrow full of cement!!! …stoopid lamea’rse Cubans… WHY the f’cuk would you close the only toilets in the airport anyway??? Continue reading →

Hey dudes and dudettes, we have been so busy with my cousin’s wedding in San Francisco and getting ourselves set up in Ireland, that we haven’t organised our Cuba photos or sent the last 2 travel logs that we wrote 2 weeks ago… so here’s the first of them… we’ll send the other when we’ve sorted out our photos…

2/10/05

Hola Comrade Revolutionaries and Revolution Fairies

Well we are currently still in Vinales in the west of Cuba braving out the Cuban Cockroach Crisis, but we’ll be heading back to Havana this afternoon …and fortunately there have been no further episodes of Avril teleporting, although we were quite surprised about how many of you guys out there wrote back to tell us that that they too had witnessed the same phenomena in their girlfriends… so we’re happy that a lot of our Captain Caveman friends also have superpowered girlfriends out there…

In anycase, we just have to tell you about Cuba because it is such an interesting but f’ucked up place.

For all you fairies who aren’t up to date with the revolution, we have to tell you a bit about it first since Cuba’s history is definitely the most interesting that we have come across in Latin America. Continue reading →

This is a copy of a post that we put on the Lonely Planet Thorntree travel site for anyone who wants some Cuba tips and a recommendation for a Casa Particular in Havana.

Hi All

We have just spent the last 10 days in Cuba and since we got a lot of help from the information on this site, we thought it would be helpful to post some thoughts on costs and other issues that we have come across.

ABOUT US

We are an Australian couple on a low budget backpacking trip throughout latin america, so cost was a big thing for us. We spoke basic backpacker Spanish and although this was our first time in Cuba, we have spent close to a year in total travelling through all of Central and South America so we are quite experienced travellers. We only travelled for 10 days in Havana and Vinales so please don’t take it that we are Cuba experts. These tips are only based on what we experienced.

COSTS IN HAVANA

We managed to score accomodation in a non-government registered casa (in other words an unofficial casa) from a post from Nikki on this thorntree which was CUC15 for the room for 2 people and that included breakfast for 2 and free dial up internet. So that’s CUC7.50 per person including breakfast so being a couple definitely helps in keeping costs down here. Dinner at the same place which was very filling and tasty was CUC4 per person. Continue reading →

29/9/05

“Mutant Superpowers will often manifest themselves for the first time in times of extreme stress or extreme self sacrifice…” Professor Charles Xavier founder of the X-men.

Buenos Dias Fellow Superfriends and Avengers of Evil

We are currently in the west of Cuba in a beautiful mountain valley hiking area called Vinales and we have been staying in a Casa Particular which is like a family homestay where you live and eat in a Cuban family’s house, which has been a great and fun way to meet the locals and learn about the difficulties of living under Fidel’s socialist/communist government.

However, today there was an escalation in the CUBAN COCKROACH CRISIS that threatened to harm Cuban-Cedavril diplomatic relations, but instead ended up being the catalyst for the manifestation of Avril’s brand new superpower.

This morning just as we woke up, Avril rolled on top of me in bed for our usual morning cuddle when all of a sudden a FUCKI’NG HUGE COCKROACH fell from the roof and instead of landing on my face, it landed on AVRIL’S FACE…!!! Continue reading →