Cholson Chalets Tobago

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Last week my parents came to visit me. It was very nice to see them again as it was the first time in over 8 months. Dad didn't believe it was me when we met because of my bleached hair and 'castaway' beard. Mum could finally relax and I could finally go to a restaurant again. I was very pleased to be on easy street again. We ate out (spending a week's budget on a meal), hired a car, and went on two boat trips. The boat trips were my highlight of the week. I'd never done ...

... 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 ...

... delicious food. it's really a nice place and one of the brothers is crushing on the hostess. he throws her some lines ("hair, on. nails, on") and she proceeds to melt and give him her number. oh, and he mentions to me that he has a sex swing in his bedroom. it's tiger print. and he has a chocolate pen. this girl has got it coming. he's perry the more carefree, naughty twin. paul is the more conservative stable twin ...

... not ripen until we have left. We were looking for some limes for drinks and discovered that not only do they not have limes as we know them, but "lime" more often means "party." When you hear liming, or lime it is always referring to a party or get together and not a fruit. As for double double...in Canada to patrons of Tim Horton's it means one thing...in Trini and Tobago it means ...

... dezue cho sind, haemmer au no chli gschlafe. Es isch scho schoen, waemmer mal de Alltag chan vergaesse und eifach nur chan gnuesse und mal wiit weg sii vo dihei. Jetzt verzell ich oi chli vom Carnival. Mir haend ide Tanzband vo minere Tante mitgmacht zum Thema Traumfaenger/Indianer. Also de CArnival fangt am Maentig Morge a, mitem "j'ouvert-Morning". Da gaht mer am Morge frueh am 3 uf d'Strass und fahrt is Zentrum, wo ...

... 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...

... and confirmed as part of the flock, whilst we watched in bemused wonder. As Karen said, it was quite a touching experience. More simple were the 'rotis' we also discovered here - the Caribbean equivalent of a meat/shrimp/potato etc pie. If we'd found these, and the whole Mt Irvine experience a lot earlier, we would have been even happier with the ...

... that this wasn´t a taxi "I´ve got to go that way anyhow, I give you a lift". Raymond, our ´taxi´ driver used to work for Barclays bank, and had been to London many times, and shared with us his view on life during an entertaining 15 minute drive to the Thrifty car hire. Andrea said afterwards that it was a shame that we couldn´t hire him as our personal tour guide for the week. We collected our car, a Suzuki Jimny jeep-type, and were ...