The Flight

Virgin airways is not as special as everyone makes it out to be. But it was either this or some dodgy Cubana Airways... which sounded like a death trap waiting to happen!
But it does have the chirpiest flight attendants I've ever come across. And there's more male than female (and no I dont say that cos I was just interested in checking out the men!)
They also give a little goody bag with mini toothbrush, toothpaste, socks and eye mask, which I suppose does come pretty handy.
Anyhoo, I made full use of the personal screen and watched every movie I could - to make full use of my pennies!!!!!!! Hahahaaah I'm so shamelessly Indian! ;o) The Cohen Brother's film starring Brad Pitt in the strangest role I've ever seen - a dizzy blonde with IQ 40!

The gorgeous ladies and handsome gents in red...

One can always trust a man with a beard, that's what I think anyway!
Which is why I was looking forward to Richard Branson's elite team of modelling rejects...er.... I mean flight attendents bending to my every whim while crusing up above the sky so high!

Flight was from Gatwick Airport at 9.50am. Had a reeeeeally early wake up - 4am
We took Gurcharan's car and parked it there for £50

Boarding was smooth thanks to the online check in the previous night.Virgin Airways

Sitting comfortably inside the Pretty Lady...not sure what you were imagining but that was the name of the plane...we giggled like little school kids, made silly sentences in broken Spanish and gave each other equally silly Spanish names and finally set off for our exciting sun drenched holiday to CUBA!!!!!!!!! ;o)

Number crunching

Dates: Wednesday 4th March 2009 - Sunday 15th March 2009

Cost: £900 pp + £15 visa
Rate: £1 = 1.3 Cuban Convertible (Tourist dollar) CUC

Accomodation: Hotel Islazul Lincoln in Havana for 4 nights

View of Habana Vieja from the rooftop of our hotel

Breezes Bella Costa in Varadero for 7 nights

Hola Senor y senorita!

CUBA...

Land where the bearded brown guy is always up-to-no-good...

....where to be a vegetarian is to be like the eccentric kid with psycological issues...

...where a skimpy mini skirt and sexy fishnet tights are what you wear

when you go buy some bread and milk...!

...where 1950's vintage American cars cruise along every little graffiti-ed and Che Guevara mural painted road...

...where a professor earns more money working as a gardener in a resort...

...where communism is the name of the game and the harsh reality of poverty

is the final score...

This, my friends, is only part of the chronicle that is Cuba!

Travel Tales

Have time, will blabber...!
Gurcharan and I LOVE to travel....simple as!

After the hugely successful 'whatwedoingtoday' - which is a loooooong blog we diligently updated while travelling through South East Asia, I will now endeavour to blog about the subsequent holidays we've had since.

Hopefully it will make some sort of sense....

hopefully it will remind us of the little things we tend to forget and of the wierd moments that we WANT to forget....

hopefully it will give some budding traveller that little push and that sneaky bit of information that you can't find in the other millions sites on the world wide web...

hopefully I will one day be a best selling author with a disguistingly huge $$$ film deal!