DAY 32e
Week 5
BAYAMO ~ Hotel Royalton (Granma, CUB)
Monday April 15th, 2019
TODAYS MILEAGE – 243 miles / 391 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 16,632 miles / 26,376 kilometres
We got in to our accommodations at the Hotel Royalton where after getting squared away, we dined in their restaurant and then headed out to the local square - Parque Carlos Manuel Céspedes, where there was a street concert taking place.
Here we are standing in the street, sipping on $1.25 USD Crystal cerveza’s when it was my round in the shout. I grab a ½ dozen beers and ask about the cost of a Cuba Libre (rum & coke) for one of the group and was informed that it was $3 USD. Being the ½ smartarse that I am, I asked as to the cost of the entire bottle of Havana Club 3 Años was - $5 USD was the barmen’s response. I grabbed a full bottle and a can of Cuban Coke - tuKola, for an extra 50 cents and wandered back out to the town square – job sorted. 
In the interests full disclosure and impartial testing, I felt a shot or three of the Cuban “Vitamin R” was in order and found it to be a rather smooth tipple, that you could get to know on an immediate & intimate level quite easily. It’s a whole lot better than that Queensland cane cutters cordial – Bundaberg Rum.
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