Realistically, I wasn’t going to be able to sleep in since I had gone to bed so early the night before, but I would have liked to have slept past 5 a.m.!  Usually the cars honking, people talking, yelling and laughing, and Yolanda’s radio don’t wake me up, but that morning they did and it […]

After a long and relaxing night’s rest, we woke up ready to see one of the most beautiful cities in Cuba- Trinidad!  We woke up at 8:00 a.m. so that we would have time to shower and eat before meeting our group and loading ourselves back into the van. We ate breakfast with our new […]

Day seven started bright and early!  Actually, it wasn’t bright at all…it was still dark because it was 5:00 a.m.  We woke up before the sun rose to get ready for our journey to visit Cienfuegos.  We were supposed to be at the Capitol at 6:45 a.m., but again, Pepe was nervous that we wouldn’t […]

I woke up excited to get the day started because we were heading to the BEACH!  Mom and I woke up around 7:30 a.m. to get ready.  We weren’t leaving for the beach until 11:00 a.m., but it can be hard to find a collectivo heading towards the Capitol, so Pepe wanted to make sure […]

Please see the previous post, Cuba; Day 3-Adventures in Habana Vieja, Part I After seeing the Plaza de Armas, we took a tour of el Castillo de la Real Fuerza, the oldest existing fort in the Americas, built between 1558 and 1577 on the site of an earlier fort destroyed by French privateers in 1555. […]

The third day of our trip started bright and early, around 7:30 a.m. so that mom and I could get an early start exploring Havana.  In the past couple of years, when either of us have traveled to Cuba, Pepe has been very protective, never letting us go on our own for even a walk […]

Mom and I slept in until almost 9:00, but I did a lot of tossing and turning the whole night because I don’t usually sleep well in a new bed for the first night.  By 3:00 am, the chickens are cocka-doodle-doo-ing, and by 5:00 am, the horns are honking, the music is streaming out of […]

My mom and I headed to the airport on January 5th for a 6:00 flight out of Philadelphia to Miami.  After arriving in Miami, grabbing our huge, insanely heavy bags, we waited for the hotel van to pick us up.  It was already 10:00 p.m, by that point and we needed to be back at […]