A Cuban encounter of the rare kind

IN the “casas particulares”, the private houses at which we stayed in various towns in Cuba, we never encountered fleas and only once did we see a cockroach.

However, we saw house lizards now and then, and I got good photographs of two.

In an old house, a “casa colonial”, in Baracoa, we found a little gecko in our room, not like the see-through baby geckos in La Gomera in the Canary Islands which are so transparent one can see their organs like electric wiring inside.