Exposed to the elements

[chrestomancy]

After 5 months of care to avoid burning like forgotten bacon, we are now both burned to a crisp. The learning part of this experience is, sun umbrellas may block the visible spectrum, but UV may still get through

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keh?

[kript]

Hasta la victoria siempre.

..speed the victory of the simpering?
..quick, the Victoria sponge?

oh woe, my poor language skills. Wo da yingwen bu dai, dan se wo da chung wen. He mei de ...

Re: keh?

[bateleur]

No, no, it's Cthulhu mythos !

Hastur, servant of Queen Victoria !

(Admittedly I'm only 99% sure on the translation...)

Re: keh?

[kript]

Oh, thats all just superstition. Hastur Hastur, Hastur, see?
Nothing happe

Re: keh?

[_alanna]

lol!

[lathany]

Please tell me that you escaped OK!

[chrestomancy]

Yup. Now in Republica Dominicana.

[liriselei]

sun umbrellas may block the visible spectrum, but UV may still get through.

not sure if the UV goes through the umbrella so much as bouncing off the sand directly at the people sitting underneath, at least from what i remember of some sunscreen ads i saw once.

Frances is turning disturbingly blonde.

the image of a bright red Frances with blonde hair and no hat is deeply, deeply wrong. we demand photos !

Cuba turned out to be not only a poor socialist country, but also the most wretched hive of scum and villainy that you could dare imagine.

clearly the fault of the Yankee oppressors, whose designer heel grinds the hardworking communist folk into the dirt so hard that cheating the decadent Westerners at their own filthy capitalist game becomes the only way to survive.
or something.

[metame]

There's just stupidly more money in the pocket change of a foreigner than in the field of crops you know might be destroyed any time by the weather.

Being a poor capitalist is worse than being a poor communist, but there are huge benefits for all the rich capitalists out there in persuading you that it isn't.

[onebyone]

And furthermore, you can have solidarity and brotherly feeling for your communist comrades all day long and still happily fleece every capitalist you can lay your hands on. Not that I'm necessarily saying Cubans are any more or less comradely than anyone else, just that there's only so much you can find out about people from the far end of the bargepole they wouldn't otherwise touch you with.

[chrestomancy]

Couldn´t agree more, not least from seeing it first hand. These poor people, with their content and happy little country, are being turned into monsters by capitallist greed!

[metame]

I've always had a bit of a fear that Cuba would be a bit of a disappointment if I went there. And now you've confirmed that it is disappointing then I guess my expectations are lowered. Slag it off a bit more and they'll be so low I'll be pleasantly surprised if I ever make it there

[cardinalsin]

Yep, it has changed a lot - there's moderately servicable hotels, lots of eateries and tourist shops. Still very pretty and comparatively unspoiled, though.

[ex_kharin447]

"Frances is turning disturbingly blonde. "

Photo, please!

[quisalan]

Ditto!