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I am so excited. In two months I am off to Borneo for three weeks to trek through the rainforest and also to help Orangutans! So this week I have been writing a list of everything I am going to need and making sure I don’t need any jabs or anything like that. I have ordered some walking boots from the Internet which I hope fit and I have also been trying to find a nice pair of jeans , as I know it is going to be mega hot, but I don’t any thing biting me or crawling over my legs! And at night the temperature may drop slightly so I was going to take them just in case. But there is so much choice with women’s jeans that I can’t just buy them online like I did my boots, so I am going out this weekend to find a decent pair. Other than that, it is just the basic insect repellent and sun cream that I need to get and then I can just concentrate on being excited! Picture: realscience.org.uk

All of this could be about to change rapidly though, with the abdication of Castro his brother Raul has stepped up to the plate and with him has come several changes including a relaxation on some of their previous harsh communist ways. These changes can only broaden. So if you want to see Cuba in the way that the myths were created then you need to get a move on and visit now, sooner rather than later before it is lost forever. Image: LJSS