cuba time

if you head over to http://www.flickr.com/photos/shook_one/ my little sis has put a couple pic from cuba up. i think/hope she will upload a few more in the coming days and weeks.

my time here in cuba started of with a couple days in havana. a 15 hour bus journey took me to my home city for the trip of santiago de cuba. cuba's second largest city, santiago is all in all a nice place to experience cuba. not without it's problems, but is a bit quitter than havana and maybe dare i say a bit safer.

i spent the first half of the trip residing in the hotel birret. it's ran by the host university, university de oriente, and was overall a decent place to stay. we were given breakfast and supper and a room for a breath taking $9 CUC's a day. a big plus for me was that we got hbo, showtime, cnn, and tnt at birret. premium american movie channels in cuba? i'll take it. cnn isn't the best news source in the world but at least we got some idea of what was going on in the outside world presented in english.

i'm sorry i got distracted, just read on pitchfork that arcade fire debuted at number two on the billboard chart. wholly shit! my sis was able to send me a copy down in feb and it has been in constant rotaion on my ipod ever since. but number 2...wow. congrats. i'll pick up my tales of cuba very soon, running low on internet time. until then, cheers