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!