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| A view from our door |
In Isadora Tattlin's book, "Cuba Diaries 'An American Housewife In Havana,'" Tattlin writes that there was nowhere to go out to eat in Trinidad in the mid 90s. Things sure have changed, now there is a restaurant on almost every block of the tourist area. However, if you walk outside of the tourist zone, there are no sit down restaurants, but you can find a lot of vegetable carts and people selling food out of their homes. While tourists are buying fish fillets for 12 CUC, locals are getting ham and cheese sandwiches for 12 CUP (Cuba has two currencies, tourists use CUCs and Cubans use either CUCs or the Peso Nacional, 1 CUC=24 CUP).
The next day, we rented some bikes, that worked quite well compared to the Vinales bikes, and rode to the beach. We ran out of sunscreen and I turned into a lobster, but the water was very clear and a nice temperature. On our ride home, we got some good honey peanut bars, and took some pictures of, according to my mom, a very cool agricultural spot. After our day long excursion, we went home and made our first home cooked meal since Havana.
On our third day, we went to a pottery studio. While we were there we bought a couple pieces of pottery. When we were about to leave, the potter came out and made several pieces very quickly. One of the pieces he made was a tall pot and a lid, when he made the lid he didn't take any measurments he just eye-balled it and it fit perfectly, we were all impressed. He could tell we were impressed and acknowledged it by pointing to a picture of him as a young man on the wall as if to say "yeah, I've been doing this a pretty long time." After going to the pottery studio, we went out to lunch, where I got a hamburger and chocolate shake. I know somebody will think "wow Logan, a hamburger, why not some original Cuban food," but there seems to be only four main dishes you can get in Cuba, chicken and rice, fish and rice, pork and rice, or beef and rice, so I wanted something different (I also know I said pizza was the most common food in Cuba, but I should have said it's the most common food we found in Havana). After our elegant lunch, we went to the market that is close to our house and my mom got the embroidered table cloth. That night we went to Casa de la Musica where we listened to some rumba music, and got a couple of drinks. My mom seemed to like it, so when my dad, brother and I decided to go, she stayed for awhile.
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At the beginning of our last full day in Trinidad, we got woken up by somebody pounding on our door, we went to see what was up, and they said we needed to leave for 40 minutes while they sprayed the inside of our house with anti mosquito spray. So we went out to breakfast, where we got some very good hot chocolate and sandwiches, then came back. Our house smelled horrible, and still does while I am writing this blog. We opened all the windows and evacuated to our roof top terrace. A couple of hours after evacuating the premise onto the terrace, we went out for lunch and more shopping. We went to the same place as the day before for lunch, but instead ordered pizzas to share. After lunch, we walked up to the plaza that was close to our house. On the way we stopped and bought some artwork from a new art studio and talked to the friendly woman working there. Once at the plaza, we stopped to check-in with our next casa particulares host and enjoy the plaza. We soon headed back to our house and settled for the night.
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| Some fumigators from afar |
On our last day in Trinidad, we didn't do much since we had a bus ride early in the afternoon to Cienfuegos. We stopped by the same cafe where we had breakfast the day our house was fumigated and got some sandwiches for later. We also went to the street market that was close to our house where I bought a Cuba baseball bat and my brother got a baseball. We soon left for our short bus ride to Cienfuegos.
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