Christmas Day for Tadek. We woke early to try to return to the bus station and offer the locals a ‘reward’ for returning the tent. The things stolen were the tent, our two bags for airports, my Gore-Tex jacket and Teva sandals. The tent is the main problem that we cannot replace. In order to try to get some information, we offered €250 for the safe return of the tent, but the locals seem to be too worried about the police to do anything. One of the workers at the police station suggested that the reward might work, but it was illegal for the police to be involved in offering it.
We went to the bus terminal and surrounds talking to people twice, but nobody seems to know anything. Several hours spent in the police station waiting for people to take more details from our passports and to get us to sign a multitude of papers. It was hard to relax knowing that there was nothing that we could do and not knowing how we could continue the trip without the tent. With very little and extremely slow internet, we doubt that we can order another on from Ireland in time and do not trust that it would arrive at the Post Restante even if we were successful. With the minimum price for a Casa at €20 per night, it’s hard to think what we can do now with our limited resources and 24 days in total left in Cuba.
We went to the bus terminal and surrounds talking to people twice, but nobody seems to know anything. Several hours spent in the police station waiting for people to take more details from our passports and to get us to sign a multitude of papers. It was hard to relax knowing that there was nothing that we could do and not knowing how we could continue the trip without the tent. With very little and extremely slow internet, we doubt that we can order another on from Ireland in time and do not trust that it would arrive at the Post Restante even if we were successful. With the minimum price for a Casa at €20 per night, it’s hard to think what we can do now with our limited resources and 24 days in total left in Cuba.