Monday, 9pm

I'm back from Cien Puertas, where I downed a delicious egg & tomato sandwich with a large fresh lemonade (pucker-up!)

The restaurant is a bohemian-radical-artist-etc hangout. In other words, all my friends hang out there. The best part? Its in the alleyway next to my building! Very hip, very cool.

Tonight I had a fascinating conversation with one of the "musicians for hire" who pass from table to table, guitar in hand, offering songs for a modest fee. We discussed literature: Spanish, English, Italian, French, etc.... everyone from Shakespeare to Dante to Garcia Marquez!

Shortly thereafter I was joined by a friend who reminisced about his life and times in Cuba. For example, he told me how he had switched from smoking cigarettes to smoking Cuban cigars, because it was so much cheaper!

Yep, quite the night. Of course I'm so tired now that even my eyelashes hurt.