Hi everyone and a belated but very Happy New Year to you all from Mexico. Our first impressions have been very positive with no delays for immigration or security at the sparkling and shiny Mexico City airport, although we were handed a leaflet from the Health Dept warning of a cholera outbreak! Sniffer dogs were also noticeable as they checked all people and bags while we waited by the carousel. We also quickly discovered that it's a lot cooler here as the cit...

Bienvenida a nuestra final instalment de Cuba, tierra de salsa, canción, y puros. We left Cayo Santa Maria with mixed feelings; it had been a very relaxing 3 days with the nicest room, best shower and everything easily available (except internet and phone access!) but we knew that it wasn't the 'real' Cuba and so were happy to get back to the sights, sounds and smells of the laughing locals, their music and the dogs, chickens and horse and carts. We made date...

Retrasado estaciones saludos de su intepida viajandro corresponsales! Leaving Camaguey we shared a taxi with a couple from the Czech Republic to Santa Clara. He was a climber who fell 50 metres down a mountain some years ago breaking his back and both legs. He had recovered sufficiently to resume climbing but still needed a further operation on a badly set and swollen ankle. His wife or girlfriend who had consumed too many mojitos the night before, he told us...

Una ves mas calido saludos de su viajando amigos! Unfortunately we had no luck getting the photos on. We managed to get wifi cards (the first we´ve found in Cuba) in Baracoa and sat in a Government run cafe but couldn´t get onto any .com websites! We also haven´t been able to look at gmail since leaving England. We got the bus back over the mountains from Baracoa to Santiago where we stayed one night and enjoyed a chip sandwich with a cocktail and a beer i...

Jose Maria Olazabel from Baracoa! Leaving Trinidad behind we had a 12 hour bus ride eastwards to get us to Sandiago de Cuba, the country´s second largest city, which is closer to Haiti and Jamaica than it is to Havana. We haven´t mentioned the Cuban revolution yet and Santiago isn´t a bad place to start as it was here in 1953 that it all kicked off. Living conditions in the 1950s for the majority of people here were very poor - there was a chronic housing s...