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Despite the unlikely happenings with Icelandic volcanoes that threatened to make this trip an impossibility, ten years after first visiting the Island of Barbados I found myself flying back to the home of my favourite rum. Four if us arrived on a hot humid evening and were deposited in a fantastic villa with a couple [...]

Finally at the end of our trip we ended up back in Havana, staying in Varadero just down the hill from the rather majestic front of the Universidad de la Habana. I loved Havana. Varadero is a residential area of wide streets, crumbling old colonial house, cracked pavements and shady trees. From here we could [...]

In Santa Clara we had Che day,a whole day devoted to the poster boy of the Cuban revolution Ernesto Che Guevara. We walked out to visit the moment, mausoleum and museum to El Che and of course the legendary (in Cuba certainly) train which Che and 18 men overcame on the 29th Dec 1959 despite [...]

Trinidad is a small and very beautiful colonial town near the south coast of Cuba. The centre is full of cobbled streets, brightly painted buildings with ornate iron grills and red tiled roofs. Above the main plaza there was a wide flights of stone steps with a large area half way up. On Saturday night [...]

Here are some of my favourite photos from my Cuba holiday. It is a fascinating, friendly country with a bizarre combination of Latino spirit, Caribbean cool and communist control! We went from Havana to Santiago de Cuba, Trinidad, Santa Clara and back to the capital via many Casa Particulares, several Casa de la Musicas, a [...]

Two months doing volunteer work on a Caribbean island working with around eighty adorable if uncontrollable children in the YMCA summer camp. And yet Steve, Fliss, Sarah and I still managed to find of plenty of white sandy beaches, flying fish, turquoise waters, calypso music, a short jaunt to St Lucia and lots of very [...]