Notes from a curious life.

Early Sat 28th November After our breakfasts I departed leaving the Dutch couple to enjoy there free day going around the nature reserves whilst I set of to find the museum and Playa Larga. The museum door was open but alas it was closed and wouldn’t open for another 20 minutes or so (Lonely Planet […]

Very early Thursday 26th With yesterdays 100 mile epic ride from Trinidad to Playa Giron I now have over 1,000 miles on the clock 🙂 OK, the conditions were favourable with temperatures in the 20’s and a good wind most of the day, smooth empty roads, and with the nearly 3000 ft of climbing mainly […]

I’m now over halfway in time and folding my paper map (Michelin 786) into two exactly in the centre of the island 🙂 although I don’t intend doing another circular tour like along the South Coast so should be quicker to the top of the island. Although I want to stop a couple of days […]

I’ve today completed the South coast loop of Cuba traveling the full length of the South coast in an anti-clockwise direction starting and ending in Holguin. It’s taken 11 days of riding plus 1 rest day to do the very hilly nearly 1000km. I had overnight stays in:- Bayamo (From Haiguin), Manzanillo, Marea delPortillo, Uvero, Playa?, […]

I set of before 5am in the pitch black, thank goodness I had rigged up the super bright LED lamps. My stomach was feeling ver queasy and I soon found myself doing emergency stops every few miles 🙁 was it a bug in the infirmary or was it the food? Imias was holding a full scale […]

Guantanamo is a pleasant enough working city, I loved the city centre shop stocked with washing machines like some warehouse, only one model though! I left after a poor nights sleep proving that price doesn’t always equate with comfort. I biked past the loco sheds, apparently the Cuban rail network is currently down, so it […]

Today marks the end of my first week biking in Cuba with over 360 miles biked and according to my InReach 320 tracking points sent which means I have been travelling for just over 53 hours. The InReach seems to be working well with Sally, Nick, Obliquepanic and The TruffleHound all giving favorable comments about […]

Geoff’s Cuba trip 5th November to 7th December Total 1782.08 Day Date Place Distance (Miles) km Night Price Thursday 5. Nov. 2015 Havana 0 Aeroporte Hostal Friday 6. Nov. 2015 Havana 43.3 69.28 Aeroporte Hostal $85.00 Saturday 7. Nov. 2015 Bayamo (From Haiguin) 39.4 63.04 Hotel Royalton $47.00 Sunday 8. Nov. 2015 Manzanillo 42.6 68.16 […]

Well I was already to start doing a comprehensive review of my first 4 days in Cuba. However, I discovered the free Cuba Libra at my all inclusive $38 per night resort hotel (well Cuban Convertible Pesos’s which are pegged to the US dollar’s except if you want to buy them with US dollars you […]