La Terrazas Tour

After watching the Oscar results on CNN we finally found out about Eddie Redmayne's success before heading off for breakfast. We had a tour organised for 9.30 and met up with a Belgian/Dutch group of 4 and a German couple.  Our guide Oriol used to be an English teacher but becoming a guide enabled him to earn more. He was very lively and entertaining and it was a pleasant tour with lots of opportunities to ask about life in Cuba. We started at a viewpoint, an old French coffee plantation where we learned about coffee growing and the slave conditions on the ranch. Our guide heard the Cuban national bird, the tocororo and used a call on his phone to bring it closer. It was a very colourful bird and the photographers in the group were very glad to see it.

Our guide had 2 daughters and the older one was a beautician who "does restoration to women". What a great way to describe it.

On his recommendation we went to the "best vegetarian restaurant in Cuba". It was very good but too much and we probably ordered too much as well.