Our beginning was on the bus, with about two hours on it to get to Moron. We stopped at a place where we thought we might get a coffee and some access to a toilet. However, although it was called a "Rapido" stop, there was one person doing the work, four watching, and twenty in a line. As well, the person with the key to the washroom had not yet shown up, so we couldn't use that. So we left, and found another place further along. Such is Cuba: it's complicated.
Once in Moron, we got on the bikes and began our trip along the road to Adelaida y Falla, and to Chambas. This country was mostly flat, with crops of sugar cane, potatoes (the soil looks like PEI), cattle. And lots of small holdings with many small plots of veggies (cabbage, beans, broccoli, tomatoes, onions, cukes, sweet potato, oranges, papaya). Lots of horses, used for transport (this is cowboy country as well), and used to pull wagons. Some oxen used for this as well. A lot of dogs and some cats. Many houses which looked the same, three or four rooms, one-story, metal roof. The towns were small, with some colonial buildings, and a lot of others. Some in poor repair, some in excellent repair and painted as well.
We stopped for a lunch in San Juan del Rado, at a park with a pool as well as a lake, complete with pink flamingoes.
The meal was Cuban and good, and the pool was warm (although the air was cool, and we didn't swim). Then by bike to our stop at Yaguajay, where we got on the bus for the trip to Sanctus Spiritus.
We are staying at the Hostal del Rijo, an 1818 mansion converted (well) into a hotel with only 16 rooms. We basically have the whole hotel.
We had our supper across the Plaza, and I bought a picture of me with Fidel (well, actually, it is Ernest hemingway, but it looks like me). After a walk about the town, we have returned to the room, and I am writing a few more words before going to bed.
We pedalled 75 km today. About the same tomorrow.
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Location:Sancti Spiritus
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