All of us were up and out of the Hotel Colon before 9AM as we had scheduled a bicycle taxi tour of old town Camagüey.
I have to say outside of staying in The Underground Hotel in Coober Pedy, this is the first hotel I’ve stayed slept in that’s had no windows at all – kind a weird ….. or did they re-purpose a broom closet, because the room sure felt that way.
In just on a hour, we got to see a few of the city’s historical sites like Plaza de los Trabajadores, Teatro Principal de Camagüey and the gallery and street sculptures of renowned local artist Martha Jiminez.
It was then a 3 hour bus ride into Sancti Spiritus where lunch was meant to be a Serrano Ham sandwich at the Taberna Yayabo, which turned into a 2 hour ordeal in which you got two one inch thick slices of dried bread with bacon like pork meat and sweaty cheese for $8 USD that could be best described as a shit sandwich without the bread.
The rest of the afternoon was filled with the 1½ hour drive into Cuba’s third oldest city – Trinidad.
After freshening up, we all met back at the main casa – Casa Anay y Jesus for Ronaldo to both instruct and allow us hands-on tutoring in the making of a Mojito, a Daiquiri and a Canchánchara, which I might add, was a hell of a lot of fun.
Dinner was a group affair at the main casa before quite a few of us headed out to a local square which was pumping with locals bands at Casa de la Música.
