Bay of Pigs

We are not too far from the Bay of Pigs, so I thought it apt to describe all of the things you can do with a pig in Trinidad de Cuba.
1. Tie it up outside your house
2. Take it for a walk around town at night on its lead
3. Roast the whole darling on a spit
4. Sell bits of it between slices of bread
5. Put it on the back of you horse drawn tray and take it for a ride around town.
6. Butcher it, cut it into great hunks, set up a pork stall outside your house, shoo away the tourisits, but leave the flies to party.


Unfortunately the guy who was taking his pig for a ride had an accident. His tray was damaged on a light pole. Fortunately the passanger was not harmed.

We are now a little bit famous in trinidad de Cuba, as soon as we say ¨Caruso family¨ people make consoling noises and apologise to us. This is because we have apparently had more bad luck than any other tourist family. Apart from our accommodation being stuffed up our booking for horse riding through the sugar cane was messed up, the were told that our taxi driver is Trinidad´s most special idiot and that we were quite right not to pay him the $25 he asked to stuff us around.

For the first time Charles got annoyed, and even our tour guide has ¨left town¨ for the day. Even though this is all a pain, this is just a little taste of how Cuba functions all the time for Cubans. They queue for hours and wait for terrible service, this includes things like queuing for a hour in the sun just to pay a bill, or just to get into the supermaket. So even though the whole deal is frustrating we can claim it as authentic.

Both the boys are doing really well with their Spanish. They are way ahead of me. Where I might say the equivilent of fantastic music ´musico fantastico¨, Charles wil sit with the book and work out how to say the Spanish equivilent of ¨We think your music is beautiful.¨ all using the correct form of the plural pronoun and getting the tense correct as well. Josh is really giving it a good go as well and they are correcting each other not just on vocab, but also on grammar.