Getting into Trinidad... Unesco Worldheritage.

We walk uphill over cobblestones-streets towards the old churchruïne "Ermita de Nuestra Senora..." Along the way we stop in a small musicinstruments-shop – i buy some maraca's. A bit further there is a nice streetmarket with hand made stuff and art&craft... paintings, clothing, statues, bracelets, toys, instruments...

The dilapidated church is only a ruïned framework, but its worth making the walk up the hill for the views alone.

De/the "Ermita de Nuestra Senora de la candelera de la popa del Barco"

Plaza Mayor, i see 2 older men, i'm allowed to take a Photo. They wave and want us to come and sit down with them. One of them, Oliver was a teacher English & French before the revolution... He is telling us how the cobblestone streets where made by African slaves – they were big strong man...

He used to be a bell-ringer in the San Fransiscus v Assisi church.
Now he is 83 and enjoys sitting in the shade & watching people passing by on the Plaza Mayor. He was married, his wife has past away now. He has 5 children, his oldest daughter is 45. He wants to know if we are married and if we have children. He doesn't understand... such a beautiful womans and no husband or children... A lot of Cuban people here don't understand how we can so beautiful and still not married and no children...

We visit the "Iglesia de la Santisima de Trinidad", with 14 handmade detailed wooden altars inside. All made bij the Dominican priest, who was a priest there since 1912.
We visit the museum 'museo Romantico' located next to "Iglesia de la Santisima de Trinidad", – a colonial building from 1808. It gives a realistic vieuw on how the aristocrats used to live here.

We walk to a tobaco factory, its closed for renovation Works. Gwen is tired and she goes for a siesta. Greet and i are visiting "Casa del Alfarero en Alfarero Céramica" a factory of ceramics – somebody guids us around en we get some explanation about the whole process of making & baking ceramics. I'm well impressed about the old ovens that are still in use.

We walk back to the centre via smaller streets...

A local butcher here for the local people... some meat on a table, a knife and a scale, thats all there is to it!

We have dinner in the paladares "Estella" – Lovely food and i can advise everyone to go for the flan caramel as dessert!