Nassau

So, we say Goodbye to Puerto de Vito and head north, back to the Ragged Islands and then the chain of Exumas.

Back in Georgetown, Jay volunteers to repair a sail for our friends on 'Taipan', an Australian couple that wanted to head off to Florida and then pulled the clew out of their headsail.  Good to keep his hand in!

So Jay left us and flew to Florida from here.  Sad to see him go, but he needs to get on with his life, we shall meet up with there in a couple of months.

At the Palm Cay Marina in Nassau.  We are cruising with 'Wyuna', Gina and Bruce, and 'Liberty Blue', Olivia, Alexis, Iris and Hugo.  Here we are celebrating Gina's birthday with a round of Mojitos, just any excuse for a drink really!

Back in the land of Starbucks.                                    

In the evening we went to the old part of Nassau to have a walk around and then had a fabulous meal at Cafe Matisse.  A lovely treat for our 12th wedding anniversary.

Cuba 2

Driving around the countryside, and loving the scenery.

Stopped to chat with the sugar cane harvesters and sample their produce.  It is cut each year and the re-seeds itself for the next year.

A typical farmer's cottage.  They make some wonderful fences out of cacti and trim  them to size, very ingenious.     

The courtyard inside one of the beautiful old houses in Havana                                                                                    

And of course all the old cars in Havana, here's a whole row of them, a taxi line. waiting for the tourists to come ashore from the cruise ship.

Trinidad, one of the must see old towns in Cuba.  Very pretty, but full of visitors and noise and dirt.  We stayed a day and then high tailed it back to the civilisation of the city!

In Havana there is a huge renovation project underway and in one of the squares each reformed building had a sign showing old and new.  It will all be beautiful when they are finished.

We stayed in a 'casa particular' in a suburb of Havana called Vedado.  The family was wonderful and we usually had a drink with them in the evenings, excellent Mojitos.

And last of all, it was hard to miss the face of 'Che Guevara' on so many of the walls all over Cuba and signs supporting the revolution everywhere.
A great place to visit with so much history and culture to absorb, have bought a book on the history and will try and educate myself!