A few things to understand about Cuba before reading our blog, it´s a communist society (albeit not 100%, in fact there are many instances of commercialism & westernisation , just none of it is American driven), they have a fantastic education system & health system, one of their claims to fame is that the life expectancy of a Cuban is greater than that in the US. The average monthly wage is the region of US$15 but they do get rations, cheap transport & free health, education etc. etc. Castro´s plan is to grow tourism revenue to deliver 50% of the country´s [View Full Entry]

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CATIA LA MAR (near Caracas) - Fri 06/10 to Sun 08/10 Arrived in Caracas airport in Venezuela on Friday 6th October at about 4pm. After reading many reviews of Caracas, it was clear that it was one of the most dangerous cities in South America so we agreed it was best to stay near the airport. The flight from Madrid to Caracas was quite ironically the longest and shortest I have ever been on - the longest because I have never been on a 9 hour flight before and the shortest because the fear of what was ahead of us when [View Full Entry]

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Well, I´m sure everyone enjoys their own wedding and we were no exception! We had a fantastic wedding day/week, it really was superb, I think most people enjoyed themselves - Ruth, one of the guests summed everything up perfectly: the venue, the beach, the town, the hen night, the stag night, Bar Josep, San Miguel, the Craic, the sunshine, the church, the suits, the guests, the outfits, the dress, the veil, the bride, the bridesmaids, the music, 'Supergreg', the Corrs sisters, the vows, the readings, the tapas, the cocktails, the decorations, the candles, the table names, the Gypsy [View Full Entry]

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Well here goes......... Siobhan & I finished up at work on Friday 15/09 & spent the following week packing up the house & making the final arrangements for the wedding & trip. It was a busy week for us & we weren´t helped by a storm on the Thursday night that took 14 tiles off the roof of the house of which most landed on our driveway. Luckily, we had just moved the car out onto the road, someone was looking down on us :-) We had other problems with the camper van & only collected her (now christened the "Big [View Full Entry]

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At last says you. The promised log, a few photos & the odd short video, I hope they work as our experience has been they only do 1/2 the time. We intend to use this as our own diary so forgive the detail & feel free to skip the reading & do as you did when you were a kid & just look at the pictures. Also, it will take us a while to come up with our preferred format so early entries are experimental, any feedback will be appreciated. Our rough intended itinerary is as follows: Oct - Dec ´06 [View Full Entry]

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