Manzanillo, Cuba 4/29/1939
Dear Marie and Valdemar, Here comes a little pip from us since I have heard bird songs from Cuba. We have written to the Consul on Jamaica to send your surely waiting letter to Santiago here on Cuba which we really soon should be able to reach. Eastward has been a hard nut to break but now we are soon at the end. We are still on the coast to find a ship for one part of the family but it doesn’t seem we have any luck there. The ships where the captain could be allowed to hire such a crew are all going in other directions than Europe and the ones that do go to Europe around here are British don’t dare to hire a female crew. We met a Fin in the last harbor who would have liked to take us along but he went to Geneva and that is also a good distance away from the green Danish fields. At the end of it all may be that “Restmore” will have to turn the nose around and go home the same way although then it will be in a fast way: Bahamas – Bermuda – Vlissingen – Skovsholod. We will have to see what happens. Wonder how you’re doing, the legs, the flowers in the garden, Valdemar swimming trips. Now you have the sun and the warmth. Here people measure the sun and have 88 degrees. So, it is rough, you can be sure. And we are half dazed from the heat. A good excuse for being lazy but otherwise we are all right. Now Lars is 6, Musen 5, Peter soon 32 and baby soon a whole year.
It’s real busy with chocolate and cakes in the spring month. In the last harbor Lars acquired a good friend, a pilot who took him along home almost every other day. The baby flirted with a police man who when we left gave him 12 cans of milk, a big bag of cakes and a bunch of bananas and now he is living high on the ball and when it rains on the mister it drips on all of us. Here in this harbor we have a marine soldier standing guard day and night to chase the boys away. Although we arrived with house on our back meaning “Restmore” it is not necessary with an apartment.
We don’t have an address on Bermuda but if you have something special in your heart it is Master of the harbor, Bermuda.