Under the wire..

 Hurry up to the black market for some beans, eggs and milk. It´s getting dark, the children are waiting for dinner back home.

Guanabacoa, Havana Cuba. December 12. 2007

Analyse that

 

 “Dicen que ese tio era loco”: They say this guy was crazy…. I heard a Spanish man muttering whilst looking at one of the paintings at the Dalí museum in Figueres Cataluyna.

In this image I counted more or less 25 persons including my daughter and myself. Click on the picture for more detail.

Got a screw loose?

 Cuba visitors smile and recognize the scene. The pre-revolutionary US type wrecks is kept running with the help of Cuban ingenuity and spare parts from all kind of cars Russian, Korean, Japanese… you name it.

Photo taken in Santiago de Cuba. December 24  2004.

Caribbean dream

Isla Mujeres, Yucatan Mexiko. Take the ferry from the mainland to this quiet little island not far from Cancun. (That´s my daughter Kajsa standing at the palm tree admiring the sunset)

If you feel like more adventures you can go by motorboat further out in the Gulf of Mexico to Isla Contoy National Park, a rare unspoilt bird protection island .

Treasure island

It´s not uncommon to see persons with metal detectors in Cuba and actually they score quite often.  This is Playa del Este, east of Havana. I´m not sure the instrument indicated a hit on this spot..

One angry bird

  From the Christmas day cock-fight at a hard to find place somewhere behind the Mogotes mountains in Viñales, Cuba.

And.. yes I know it´s a messy, cruel phenomena just like bullfights or any other activity that includes tormenting animals.