Port Antonio, Jamaica
We say good-bye to our friends in Cuba. Before leaving communism behind, we rent a car and visit Santiago. For sure we would be still lost, wondering around the signless countryside, signless city, if it wasn't for the never ending mass of hitchhikers that direct us. There are no signs anywhere, except propaganda billboards and if you don't follow the main highway, it's very easy to get lost. We drive a family with their sick baby to the hospital in one city, another sick woman with an infection after her cesarean and with her new baby to another hospital, in another city, students to university after their weekend with the family in some village....endless, we always try to stop for a woman with a child. These people sometimes wait for hours for a bus, and it has been known - personally by J-P (when I was in Toronto) - that sometimes bus doesn't show up at all! On the way to Fort El Morro J-P makes an exception and picks up two young, cute, sexy girls who visit the place with us. This is a bit of diversion for them. as there is not much happening in people's life, except maybe dreaming about a bottle of good shampoo! I get fed up with the never changing propaganda signs and wonder if majority of people are really, really brainwashed, as signs are not only in public places, but in the city we see them on private doors, windows and always it's the same something or death. Good-bye Cuba!!
We arrived to Port Antonio, Jamaica after uneventful passage of 2 1/2 day. J-P discovered some damage on the keel coating protection, so that has to be fixed here, before we continue to Panama. There is no shortage of fruit here, or vegetable. and although grown on this island, is more expensive than in Canada. And finally Internet! We are enjoying everything that free market has to offer us here and J-P is trying to gain some weight he lost in Cuba, ice cream in on his daily menu. I just have to watch that he doesn't over-do it!
We say good-bye to our friends in Cuba. Before leaving communism behind, we rent a car and visit Santiago. For sure we would be still lost, wondering around the signless countryside, signless city, if it wasn't for the never ending mass of hitchhikers that direct us. There are no signs anywhere, except propaganda billboards and if you don't follow the main highway, it's very easy to get lost. We drive a family with their sick baby to the hospital in one city, another sick woman with an infection after her cesarean and with her new baby to another hospital, in another city, students to university after their weekend with the family in some village....endless, we always try to stop for a woman with a child. These people sometimes wait for hours for a bus, and it has been known - personally by J-P (when I was in Toronto) - that sometimes bus doesn't show up at all! On the way to Fort El Morro J-P makes an exception and picks up two young, cute, sexy girls who visit the place with us. This is a bit of diversion for them. as there is not much happening in people's life, except maybe dreaming about a bottle of good shampoo! I get fed up with the never changing propaganda signs and wonder if majority of people are really, really brainwashed, as signs are not only in public places, but in the city we see them on private doors, windows and always it's the same something or death. Good-bye Cuba!!
We arrived to Port Antonio, Jamaica after uneventful passage of 2 1/2 day. J-P discovered some damage on the keel coating protection, so that has to be fixed here, before we continue to Panama. There is no shortage of fruit here, or vegetable. and although grown on this island, is more expensive than in Canada. And finally Internet! We are enjoying everything that free market has to offer us here and J-P is trying to gain some weight he lost in Cuba, ice cream in on his daily menu. I just have to watch that he doesn't over-do it!
