The photos from the Winter 2000 UK brigade
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Turtles
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Sign in the campamento [Who wakes up to Cuba today wakes up all the time - Jose Marti]
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Brigadistas outside shop talking to kids
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Brigadistas outside shop talking to kids on street
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There was an old lady who swallowed a fly...
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Kid on a thing with wheels
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Colourful picture of small house with garden
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A Cuban toilet with a frog
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Close up of the frog in the toilet from previous photo
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Brigadistas and campamentos having a leisurly drink at night
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Brigadistas sitting in front of a dormitory. Miranda is looking a bit bored because she's trapped and if she tries to escape, she'll fall over a pair of legs.
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Brigadistas investigating a banana tree
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Introducing Mr and Mrs crocodile
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A lizard hiding in a bus (guagua) roof-window
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Close up of the lizard from previous photo
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A Cuban beach (water view)
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A Cuban beach (side view)
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A Cuban river (view from the hut)
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Crocodiles and turtles living in perfect harmony
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View inside a dormitory
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A bust of Jose Marti
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The compañeros group photo
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The main-compañeros group photo
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The UK Brigadistas group photo #1
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The UK Brigadistas group photo #2
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The UK Brigadistas group photo #3
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Introducing the deputy photographer
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The posse who went to the same school together in front of Jose Marti and the Cuban flag
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Andrei in front of Jose Marti and the Cuban flag
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A view accross the main camp-area towards the bar with the UK brigade banner in the foreground
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Picture of the dormitory. Apparently, when someone said "mornin'" , the reply was "Nah, just looking at the ground"
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A lizard on a chair
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Guinea pigs
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A guinea pig
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A big thingy of Che Guevara
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The bronze statue of John Lennon (or should that be a statue of a bronze John Lennon?)
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It's the crack of dawn, and the brigadistas are clustered around the guaguas
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And here's Andrei, complete with water-bottle, colourful T-shirt, and an extra hat
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More brigadistas posing before they set off for work (as you can see, the Cuban diseases have started to take their toll)
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A russian solidarity monument passed on the way to work
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The brigadistas heading to work
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The school the brigadistas passed on the way to work
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The brigadistas still heading to work (getting there)
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Let's pick orange!
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It's raining oranges - haleleujah!
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Great big pile of oranges
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Oranges in the cart with orange tree in the background
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Lets go for a ride with the oranges
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Break time amongst the oranges
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The orange groves viewed from a small distance
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The veterans of "La Revolucion" came to give us a talk
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It's the next day and the brigadistas are heading back to work
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The brigadistas have made it at last
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An insect pretending to be a branch
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Carrying a sack of oranges
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Brigadista hiding in an orange-tree
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Brigadistas slowly getting ready to wave oranges in the air
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close up of brigadista with orange on head (from previous photo)
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The crocodiles hugging
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Dinner at the campamento. Some musicians have come along to enhance the eating-esperience.
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What started off as a pleasant drink...
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... quickly got a bit out of hand.
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BOO!
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Help! Help! It's me that's meant to be eating the oranges, not the other way round.
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Come - let us celebrate another successful orange harvest by sitting on the orange-trailer.
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A Cuban bull, cart, and farmer.
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Patrick! Wake up!
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We're sorry, but thanks to the weather, you can't do any work today, but not to worry, the chairs are in a nice floral arrangment.
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Spanish lesson
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Salsa lesson - how to do the Conga
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Salsa lesson - and here's how it should be done!
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A frog resting on a brigadista's hat
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An attempt was made to take a close-up photo of the frog, but that was thwarted when the frog jumped on to the photographer, so here instead is the frog from the previous photo zoomed.
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Brigadistas sitting outside the dormitories - "Rowan - it's OK - we were only kidding about the frog on your hat!"
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The hotel Havana Libre
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Rainy Havana
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A bar in Havana featuring a brigadista startled by being near two cameras at once.
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Brigadistas and Cubans mixing freely in the Havana bar
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Viñales view #1
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Viñales view #2
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Viñales view #3
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Viñales view #4
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Viñales overview
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Viñales top-of-the-valley souvenir shop
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The middle of a hut in Viñales
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The edge of a hut in Viñales
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View of some hit in Viñales
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Viñales: descending the hill to the caves
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Viñales: Entered the caves
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Viñales: Some mouldy stones in the caves
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Viñales: The Norwegians pay their 'respects' to the cave.
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Viñales: Actually, this is a map - not a new life-form as someone suggested
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Viñales: The Cuban equivalent of the boat accross the river Styx
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Viñales: Ignorance is bliss
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Viñales: Leaving the cavernous cavern by boat #1
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Viñales: Leaving the cavernous cavern by boat #2
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Viñales: Leaving the cavernous cavern by boat #3
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Viñales: Leaving the cavernous cavern by boat #4
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Viñales: The outside the tunnel before the waterfall bit.
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Viñales: - Sugar cane being squeezed in a sugar-cane squeezer
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Viva la cocnut!!!
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Viñales (also available as desktop wallpaper)
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A Cuban motorway
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Scene from behind the motorway rest-stop
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The fine Cuban art of guagua racing
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International evening - The Belgians doing their performance
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International evening - Revolutionary Danes
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International evening - The Finns about to frow boots at the audience
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International evening - Boris and Liber were taught some weird kind of dance
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A dormitory photo - pose time
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A dormitory photo - after pose time
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Cuban insect on a tree
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Close-up of the Cuban insect from previous photo
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The same Cuban insect being held
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El pollo
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The main foyer of the hotel Havana Libre
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A brigadista eating a 'Las-Ramplas' burger
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Close-up of the brigadista eating a 'Las-Ramplas' burger from the prevois photo
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Havana by night - busy road with a huge guagua
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Havana by night - some buildings
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A Cuban breakfast
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Two brigadistas in love
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Washing-line based musical entertainment
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Ants
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A view of a dormitory from a bed
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Laying flowers at the Artemista monument
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Mosaic at Artemista (right)
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Mosaic at Artemista (left)
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Graffitti (?) on a tree at Artemista
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A Cuban feast layed on for us at Artemista
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Ants carrying stuff
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One of the more exotic Cuban suppers
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One of the more exotic Cuban lunches (you get the idea...)
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Cuban birthdaycake
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The collective birthdaycelebrations of those who'se birthdays were during the period of the brigades
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Monument to the heroes of the revolution in Havana
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A building in Havana that looks so nice you could eat it (or at least you'd eat it if you'd been faced with Cuban cuisine for two weeks)
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The same building from the previous photo viewed from round the corner
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Buildings in a street with a huge guagua
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The hotel Capitolio - copied from the White-House. Apparently, this is where Havana's only Internet-cafe lies
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Market in Havana
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A view inside Havana trainstation
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That part of Havana hidden behind the trainststion
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