GUAGUA –
pronounced wa-wa – is the colloquial Canarian word
for a bus. In an old restaurant in Santa Cruz I found the explanation.
Apparently an
English company called Washington, Walton and Company Incorporated set up the
first bus services in Cuba, and the abbreviation Wa & Wa Inc which adorned the
buses found it’s way back with Cuban immigrants to the Canaries.
Or so they
say.
GRAFFITI
- As in the rest of the world, our graffiti ranges from the quick scrawl to the
artistic. The animal liberation front couldn't quite fit their long word in before the little window on this old house, and these colourful pictures adorn a wall in Las Galletas carpark.
GORDO – Fatty – obviously
has an admirer, and this one on the school wall is so romantic - assuming I've translated it correctly -
– I love you Miuida because I was born to close my eyes beside you. Alba.
