To say I was a bit dusty this morning would be one hell of an understatement. I climbed on the bus feeling a bit green around the gills and six different shades of shit for the 6½ hour bus ride into Cuba’s second largest city and former capital Santiago de Cuba.
After a late lunch at the Restaurante Hostal Aurora, we took an hour or so to get the orientation walk out of the way, which encompassed visiting the main pedestrian thoroughfare, the oldest cathedral in the city – Santa Basílica Metropolitana Iglesia Catedral, as well as Parque de la Alameda, Céspedes Park and Parque la Placita en Santiago de Cuba before checking into our separate Casa’s.
We all met up around 8:30PM to go visit the city’s only 4 Star hotel – the Iberostar Casa Granda Hotel, to take in the evening skyline and have some dinner.
Imagine my disappointment to wait just over an hour for a cold ½ roast chook, that obviously died of dehydration as it as dry as a bastard calf. The “meal” was accompanied with tinned beans and peas as more of a an after-thought plate filler.
Most of the others decided to continue on to the Casa de La Trova to test out their Salsa steps with the locals, but being close to midnight, I decided to pull up stumps and hit the fart sack.
