Puerto Rico -Day 3 - Ponce

Day 3 took us to Ponce for a wedding at the Hilton... where my real achievement was to go online and book a hotel for my first night in Cuba, which was fast approaching. Again, in the absence of public transit, we accepted a ride, this time not with a friend, but the daughter of the Boqueron travel agent... She had to go to Ponce for group therapy after she had a kind of breakdown at her university in San Juan and crashed her car... twice. Anyway, Ponce is famous for its colonial history and architecture. The first picture is in one of the main squares. The presence of the motorcycle cops is because that day, August 7th, was the day of the funeral of the Ponce mayor. The second photo is the Ponce Fire Station.
And the final picture is of the cathedral opposite the cafe where we had horrendously bad coffee. Unfortunately what we really wanted to see in Ponce was a coffee plantation that was closed for renovations.

Amazingly, that night we discovered Boqueron was not THAT dead. It seems that things start to open from Wednesday. We stopped at the bar of the son of the Boqueron travel agency and sampled his very special own "chichaito" - a rum and aniseed infused drink which he flavored with lemon peel, cinnamon bark and cloves. On the way home, we stumbled into a table at a nearby bar with buffalo wings and stopped for wings, mohitos and a chat with a completely crazy and contradictory couple from Brooklyn... everything out of their mouths was completely politically incorrect, but everything they do is so.... no words. They provided kids from developing countries needing specialized medical treatment a home in the US.