Summary of Cycling in Cuba
Roads and traffic: There is more traffic in Cuba than there was 20 years ago, but still much less than in other countries. Generally trucks [...]
The Gritty Side
Dump road I love Cuba, but it isn’t always easy. Independent travel here is very doable, but I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone. The food [...]
Birds
The birds we have seen and heard along the Bay of Pigs has been outstanding. Up until yesterday we were lucky enough to see most [...]
Difficult Times
When we were travelling in Cuba twenty years ago all of the hosts at our various accommodations voiced support for the government. The Special Period, [...]
Traffic
Cuba has the most diverse traffic of any place that I have travelled. There are cars, of course, more than there were 20 years ago, [...]
Santa Clara – City of Che
The final major battle of the Cuban Revolution was fought in the city of Santa Clara. Under the command of Che Guevara, 340 guerrillas engaged [...]
Empty
Yesterday I gave some ibuprofen capsules to a woman working at the art gallery next to our casa particular in Remedios. Her knees were swollen [...]
Remedios
Without a headwind we had a pleasant 83 km ride over rolling hills to Remedios yesterday. The heat (30 to 32 degrees every day) is [...]
Topes de Collantes to Sancti Spíritus
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text] I feel that Ruth’s blog about looking for lunch in Topes glossed over some aspects of that area, like long walks in the [...]
Topes Collantes
We have climbed up to Topes de Collantes, at 750 metres in the Escambray Mountains. The road up was as much as a 22% grade, [...]