Bed #33 Hotel Butterfly on Prat, Kowloon, Hong Kong After 35 hours travelling from Cuba I was VERY VERY happy Mama had booked a nice hotel. We stayed on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong for 4 nights at Hotel Butterfly on Prat, in room 1502 on the 15th floor.

La Habana to Hong Kong … this was a SERIOUSLY long trip !!! 16, 000 KM 35 hours 3 airplanes Havana – Cancun (500 km) Cancun – New York JFK (2, 500 km) New York JFK – Hong Kong (13, 000 km) 13 hour time difference

Cuba is a pretty easy place to eat Gluten Free Most people who’ve been to Cuba seem to complain about the food: lack of variety, lack of taste & lack of availability, understandable problems considering the very difficult years due to the trade embargo, but ZZ & I have been

#32 Casa Cusy, Cayo Jutias, Cuba Cayo Jutias is one of my favourite beaches in Cuba, its an island in a natural park with no buildings except a couple of wooden beach bar huts, you need to take a taxi (20 CUC return) over the causeway from the nearest village,

Bed #31 Casa Carlyn y Mayra, Viñales, Cuba Viñales is a rural village with strange mountains that poke out of the ground like rock pillars, they are full of caves with stalactites & stalagmites. The flat countryside is where they grow all the tobacco for Cuban cigars, we went on

When we were in the Valle del Silencio in Viñales we went on a horse back excursion to visit the tabacco plantations and the caves inside the “Mogotes” mountains. Our guide was called Jose and it was just 4 of us on the ride, Jose, Mama, Estelle & I. My

 4 Weeks in Cuba – What did we spend ? WooHoo our expenses are coming down at last !!! $4,000 this month which is significantly less than the last 3 months ! Monthly Expenses (Sept 2015 – Dec 2015): How did we spend those $4,000 ? Accommodation really made a difference

Bed #30 Casa Belkis, Santiago, Cuba Casa Belkis in Santiago was my favourite casa in Cuba because I made a really nice friend, his name is Leo and he is 8 too. He lives opposite, we were staying in his Aunts house. We stayed for 6 nights and every day