Umbrellas in Cuba

It’s a bloody long way from Havana to Santiago de Cuba!   One doesn’t generally think of Cuba being a big island, but it is actually over 1200km long and anyone who has bused it from one side to the other will testify that takes some time to traverse! I decided to fly into Havana and…

The other day trip that I decided to do while in Trinidad, Cuba was the steam train out to the Valle de Ingenios (Valley of the Sugar Mills), apparently alternatively known as “The Tourist Train”. Cuba was the world’s biggest producer of sugar in the late 18th and 19th century and this valley housed nearly…