Hiya, A couple of weeks have passed and, in the meantime, we have broken Havana´s bewitching spell long enough to do some travelling around Cuba. We decided to travel for a week, starting first by going to the Isla De La Juventud with four friends (Angela, Maria, Adama and Adama´s six year old daughter - Amatu). Part of Cuba, La Isla is a small island off the southern coast of Cuba that used to be the hangout of Francis Drake and Blackbeard (or was it red?) and was apparently the original inspiration for the book Treasure Island. In the sixties it was renamed "Island of the Youth" in honour of the thousands of volunteer students that went there to get industry set up. We had heard it was a beautiful, quiet island, half of which is
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