To my amazement none of us had hangover this morning. I still had the dam cold and tears coming from my eyes thanks to the air con on the flight. Jenny and Miguel organised the trip to Viñales , North of Havana, a 4 hour trip in a original 1954 Chevrolet. The driver's name was Carlo - a friend of Jenny's, by the end of the day he was ours as well. Carlo knew little English but it was enough. Even though I speak Sinhalese it still embarrasses me that I can't s...

We finally landed at Havana airport, and went to immigration. We all chuckled at the issue we had for the visas. While we were in a line at the immigration one official went by me and had a good look, he went to another person and said something, next thing I knew both men came up to me and asked for my passport. Then they went away - meantime Tangey and Claire were chuckling to themselves. After a while one of the officials came back and started asking w...

I booked my tickets ages ago and only had to collect them from Brentford station in the morning. I thought I had the reference number for the tickets and entered the details only to find that that it didn't work. I went to the station master and he couldn't figure it out also. Then I looked further down the email and found another reference number which was collect and got the tickets only for the station master to say that booking early did not make any differen...

After a conversation with Sheena the night before about the Cuban tourist visa, I thought I will phone the Cuban consulate to check, this was around 10.00am. To my shock I was told that I had to get a tourist card and the consulate will close at 12.30pm on that day for the holidays. Quickly, phones Tan & Claire and no reply. I then got the address from the website and headed out. I had a call from Tan and told him the situation and said he will meet me there...