Yes, these photos couldn't wait any longer. Those who are attentive to my posts have already seen the bustling streets of this eastern city in black and white. Four days ago I decided to share them with a few reflective thoughts. Today I want to show you its true colors.
Kind, hard-working people, shown here in their comings and goings, in their daily struggles.
This street, Enramada, is very picturesque and also offers tasty ice-creams in some of its stalls.
There is a popular saying that says that he who doesn't get dirty doesn't enjoy himself (quien no se embarra, no goza) hahaha... I assure you that I got dirty several times, of course.
But let me get serious... although this I just said is truly a serious matter.
{lol}
This city was founded in 1515 by the Spanish conqueror Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar. There was no ice cream then, but I imagine they rejoiced with other things. Who knows what... if so, feel free to mention some of them.
Music, perhaps. 😉
It is said that a peg-legged pirate (as the French pirate François Le Clerc was known) sacked it in 1554.
Sorry, this reminded me of a song lyric. You'll just have to bear with me. 😂
Pero si me dan a elegirEntre todas las vidas yo escojo
La del pirata cojo
Con pata de palo
Con parche en el ojo
Con cara de malo
El viejo truhan, capitán
De un barco que tuviera por bandera
Un par de tibias y una calavera
Joaquín Sabina
In Santiago de Cuba there is a museum dedicated to piracy but I didn't have time to visit it, maybe next time. And no, that day I couldn't be a photographer for Playboy 😜. So let's continue with the views of the city.
But I did get a photographic sweep.
;)
The blue mountains fascinate me. I have thought many times that I wish I had had time to hike there and go birding. This trip only allowed me to get lost with a GPS, walk miles and miles going around in the same place, and get my companions lost too, of course. It wasn't so bad after all, because we were hikers with camera in hand and we did something. Photos, you see, eating ice cream several times, as if someone had sent us to taste it for a magazine, getting up early and taking cold baths in the mornings because I felt really exhausted.
I also tried one of these for free and remembered when I was a child my grandmother would take me to an amusement park and I would always run with my coins (pesetas) to buy cotton candy.
I enjoy a lot while doing street photography. People here are usually so friendly and they used to ask me to take their portraits.
Como te digo una "co" te digo la "o".
🤣
The translation of the title of this song is: As I tell you one thing, I tell you the other. This is another Sabina song that only Spanish speakers will understand.
I have been listening to Sabina while writing this post. Also, both songs mention Havana. In the latter, it's a kind of conversation between two people and one of them says he came to Havana, but he also says he will never go back. I think Santiago will go less. 😁
As for me, it is certain that I will return. And it seems to me that this visitor is super excited about the musicians on the street. I am almost sure he will come back to Santiago as soon as he can.
What I have left, uh... oh, yeah. Bikes.
We went to see that bay area and these boys were having fun and guess what? They also asked me to take pictures of them.
No argument. Here they are.
