Celebrating New Calendar Year In Gibara Cuba

Just right before feste in discoteche capodanno a roma  the new Yr we (Liz and Andy, the Considerably And Further-team as we choose to phone ourselves) arrived in Gibara, an enthralling little seaside city to the northeast price of Cuba, and we have been invited to New Calendar year Eve's meal by a Cuban spouse and children.

The new Calendar year is celebrated in Cuba for 3 whole days. Based on custom an entire pig is barbecued within the very last working day with the 12 months and it's the men who may have the honor of carrying out this process.

We arrived close to 7 pm, as well as the men on the household welcomed us with flushed cheeks - they had been barbecuing the pig, in addition as consuming a lot of rum as is the tailor made, for 7 hrs. There have been a lot of people present, 4 generations from the family members.

We introduced biscuits, juice and gentle drinks for your little ones along with a bottle of rum for our hosts. The tables groaned less than foodstuff and every person actually enjoyed consuming. For us the crisp pig skin, the very best part in the pig as we ended up instructed, was on the other hand practically far too considerably. Immediately after the food everyone left for that town's "Fish Square", the conference put where by all people that wish to dance and have enjoyment collect virtually every day.

We asked what time it was and were instructed that no timepieces were needed, we'd soon know. And confident more than enough, instantly the church bells started chiming furiously - it had been New Year! "Feliz nuevo ano" was listened to almost everywhere and salsa stuffed the air.

The music was captivating and in advance of we knew it, we had been dancing way too, and although not known for our mastery of dance measures, saved dancing in the sq. till the small several hours like everybody else. Kisses had been exchanged; the young as well as the outdated were being buddies - hermanos - brothers and sisters. Almost everything was shared, the songs, dancing and rum bottles. The rum was at some point offered out in all places...

The family members and their close friends celebrated the brand new Year's Working day jointly. Within the streets folks wished us a cheerful New Year - there were merely a handful of travelers with this town as well as the few kinds we saw seemed to generally be shy of meeting the neighborhood people today. After the 8 o'clock Mass the Fish Square filled with individuals yet again. The favored band Eddy-K had arrive to entertain the townspeople with their incredibly very own reggaeton. The ladies wore glittering, eye-catching attire as well as the gentlemen competed for his or her interest. We listened to the band with our new pals, dancing within a ring, a bottle of rum while in the center. It absolutely was a hilarious evening and there was no brawling, no drunken misbehavior - the guards and the police ended up patrolling.

Over the second of January the townspeople spent time on the squares and within the terraces from the bars. It was a nice and peaceful way of shelling out a vacation. Just after the evening Mass the Fish Sq. was vacant, no new music. Throughout our five-day stay in Gibara this was the sole night when there was no action there. We were being informed that this was on account of the fact that another working day was a piece day. But within the seaside bar the musicians had been taking part in and singing conventional songs and several persons have been dancing to your melancholy tunes.