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3 January 2003: Santo Domingo to Santa Clara (35 km) Today the weather was the exact opposite of yesterday. Rain started at 6 AM and did not end till 4 PM ! It was a real hard tropical rain. It made the ride really quick. (We were cold!) We did 35 km in 3 hours without stopping. At 1:30 PM we arrived at the incredibly luxurious Hotel Caneyes. The water was so hot Ray burned himself in the shower (50 Celsius). We had a disco and pool here, internet, color television with both American and Cuban Television. I took a nap at 4 PM after lunch and actually fell asleep. For lunch I had drunk hot chocolate I was so cold. One day you have heat exhaustion and the next day you need hot chocolate so you don't freeze! For the evening we took a cab to the center of beautiful Santa Clara. I bought 2 pizzas for 8 Pesos and then sat in a Cuban ice cream parlor Piroppo. The ice cream was better than I've eaten in the USA. We then heard a little music from a 'son orchestra' at the Gazebo in the center of the town square beautiful park in Santa Clara. Santa Clara has architecture like a little Vienna with beautiful ornate clean buildings from the time of the eighteen hundreds. We took a cab back at 9:30 PM and went to sleep. By now we were falling asleep the instant our heads hit the pillow.
