Arthurs By The Sea Tobago

... Tobago has an Atlantic coast and a Caribbean coast, both have sandy beaches but the Atlantic coast can be somewhat wilder – quite like Cornwall. The airport is located at the southernmost point of ...

... before and had never really seen the point. Here was a pretty good place to start though and I really enjoyed finding all these exotic fish and chasing after them. I was a little dissappoointed that i didn't see any (non-aggressive) sharks, moray eels or octupii but that just leaves them for another time. The coral was beautiful and it felt like another adventure. Another day we went to some waterfalls, led by a grumpy guide who left us there. The falls were very nice and ...

... however, had different ideas and ended up further away than the starting line. In the evening the party began. In Tobago this means big speakers out in the street and plenty rum. We were with a group of mostly Norwegian girls and it was incredible to see the attention they got from the locals. The guys would just come up behind them and start 'wining' (a dance of grinding ...

... and she mentioned they might want to meet me too. i arrive on thursday call them on friday morning and by friday afternoon we're having a gorgeous local lunch and having a great time. i'm told to get some rest "cos tonight we lime". ummm, ok. when they pick me up my attire dictates that we can't go to a club (clubs require fancy clothes, i have on the backpacker's special) so we head to a jazz bar and have some drinks ...

... else. In many places there are people selling "doubles" out of the backs of trucks...for example at the airport in Trinidad. A double is two pieces of fried dough filled with a concoction of curry and spices and pigeon peas, covered in green and hot sauces...and doubles are fantastic. A double double (two doubles) costs a little more than $1.00 and is a very filling breakfast!

... am liebschte nomal um es paar wuche verlaengeret, aber mer soett immer daenn gah, waenns am schoenschte isch und mich erwartet ja no ganz viel abentuer uf minere reis dur suedamerika.... P.S. Da ich im moment z'Venezuela am umereise bin mit de helfti vo mim gepaeck (di ander helfti hani z'Caracas la) , chani nonig so viel foetli uelade, aber sobald ich wieder zrugg bin, chani oi no viel me o Trinidad und em Carnival zeige.

... and would be even moreso if there was sun! However, this notion that Englishmens' is one of the best in the whole Caribbean is a bit much...it's not even close to Vieques and many other Virgin Islands for example... We are trying to remain up beat but we're soggy and mosquito bitten!

3 Taeg haemmer ois am am Carnivalstress welle entzieh und sind z'Tobago an Strand. Das isch wie scho gseit d'Nachbarinsle vo Trinidad. Det gits luuter paradiesischi Sandstraend, viel Sunne und feins Aesse... mmm.... Aber lueged doch d'Bilder saelber ah...

... s here that lucky divers get to swim with massive manta rays around huge brain corals, whilst the less adventurous relax over steak and lobster dishes at Gemma's Kitchen overlooking the bay and Little Tobago island across the way. Gemma's place is quite a structure, somehow at one with the gnarly old tree it sits on and that copes with busloads of ...

... Our flight left pretty much on time, and was pleasant enough (GE-90 powered B777 for fellow boffs) and we watched Meet the Fockers on the seat-back TVs. I then managed a bit of a snooze while Andrea sat enthralled through Spongebob Squarepants ("He´s a sponge that lives at the bottom of the sea, and he´s square, so he wear´s square pants" she explained later). We stopped off for an hour or so in Antigua, where about 3/4 or more of the passengers got off. Antigua was ...