Neil and I came to the Caribbean for winter holidays. We stayed in the Condado district and walked around the old town, and the beaches nearby. The ancient fortress (San Felipe de Moro) in Old San Juan is a grand and beautiful, it had never been breached in its 500 year history. We walked along the path outside the fortress walls to the tip of the peninsula, watching the cruise ships go by and the crashing waves. In the evening however, we saw thousands of cats living there among the ballast rocks, sometimes sharing food with a few mice. People seem to feed them daily.
The Condado district has many comfortable resort hotels, but several decades old. We looked for local gay life but none could be found. The Old town area is where the activity is nowadays, there were many pretty spanish squares, narrow cobblestoned streets lined with colonial style houses. The Governor's mansion (La Fortaleza) has a beautiful lush garden and fountains in the shade of palms. It was the residence of Ponce de Leon.
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