Day 9

It's time for us to leave Trinidad after three gorgeous days. As usual we salute the people at our best accommodation so far. We are now heading to Playa Giron with planned stop at Cienfuegos. The latter is a well proportionate town with the main square dedicated to a local hero (Josè Martì). Worth to mention are the local theatre, cathedral and the local council building. There is also a commercial street busy with shops for Cuban with hard currency.

After an hour was time to get back to the bus and to entertain us for the second part of the transfer, we watched 'El Comandante' by Oliver Stone. Maybe some of you have already seen this 2002 documentary; I can assure that in this situation it has an improved meaning.

Just when the not too impressive documentary finished we arrive in Playa Giron.

We arrived into this thing that at the beginning seemed to be a huge car park. After further investigations it turned out to be a holiday resort. The only problem being that this was the sort of place that we tried to avoid. It has to be said that this was our accommodation only for 20hr or so, and that the location is historically important. Playa Giròn is one of the two landing spots during the Day of Pig's invasion. In fact just next door there is an interesting museum on this event.

Once checked-in we are all tagged with a blue wrist-band. So it was very much an all inclusive day, with open bar and restaurant.

The experience went ok, in the end we enjoyed a lunch slightly different from usual, a swim in the bay and some drinks before dinner. The rooms were rather basic though, the accommodation in Trinidad remains our favorite.