The sleepy town in the heart of tabaco country, every front porch has a rocking chair, in fact every house has more rocking chairs than normal chairs.
Horse and cart still play a vital role in transport and oxen and cows are still used alongside a few old tractors to work the land. The town is surrounded by lush green lowland planes between small rocky hills/ mini mountains. Its lush green and humid, every afternoon the is a big thunderstorm around 3-4pm which brings a welcome relief from the sweltering heat and humidity. It also brings plenty of water which is excellent news for all the crops grown here. It is not tabacco season so they grow maize and then in september they will plant tabaco again. We visit a tabaco farmer, he showsus some plants, the leave, how they dry and prepare the tobaco and how to roll a cigar. Digby try's to smoke one, its very smooth almost a littlehoney sweetnes. (this farmer uses a little honey when he rolls his cigars to stick the outside leaf. He explains that this tobaco and these cigars are not bad for you his grand father is 87 and has smoked cigars all his life, because they are organic unlike western cigarets treated with hundreds of chemicals this is a natural product. He also explains he smokes 10 to 15 cigars a day (we have seen him smoke 2 since talking to us) he then tells us he is 25 ( he looks quite a bit older, maybe is the pack of cigarets in his top pocket and not the cigars that have caused in ;) we ride the horses back to the house. We walk into town and buy a cheese pizza for $0.35 each ( around 10 cuban pesos) its cooked inside and old oil drum that has been converted into a charcoal fierd oven. That night back at the casa we enjoy another delicious home cooked 3 course meal, I choose to have chicken and Sofie fish. If there are food shortages here we certainly are not noticing it. Everything is delicious but we still dont manage to finish all the food. Tomorrow it of to Trinidad!
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David y Sofia
Horse and cart still play a vital role in transport and oxen and cows are still used alongside a few old tractors to work the land. The town is surrounded by lush green lowland planes between small rocky hills/ mini mountains. Its lush green and humid, every afternoon the is a big thunderstorm around 3-4pm which brings a welcome relief from the sweltering heat and humidity. It also brings plenty of water which is excellent news for all the crops grown here. It is not tabacco season so they grow maize and then in september they will plant tabaco again. We visit a tabaco farmer, he showsus some plants, the leave, how they dry and prepare the tobaco and how to roll a cigar. Digby try's to smoke one, its very smooth almost a littlehoney sweetnes. (this farmer uses a little honey when he rolls his cigars to stick the outside leaf. He explains that this tobaco and these cigars are not bad for you his grand father is 87 and has smoked cigars all his life, because they are organic unlike western cigarets treated with hundreds of chemicals this is a natural product. He also explains he smokes 10 to 15 cigars a day (we have seen him smoke 2 since talking to us) he then tells us he is 25 ( he looks quite a bit older, maybe is the pack of cigarets in his top pocket and not the cigars that have caused in ;) we ride the horses back to the house. We walk into town and buy a cheese pizza for $0.35 each ( around 10 cuban pesos) its cooked inside and old oil drum that has been converted into a charcoal fierd oven. That night back at the casa we enjoy another delicious home cooked 3 course meal, I choose to have chicken and Sofie fish. If there are food shortages here we certainly are not noticing it. Everything is delicious but we still dont manage to finish all the food. Tomorrow it of to Trinidad!
xxx
David y Sofia
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