Fort Winks Inn Port of Spain

I decided to take advantage of my paid vacation and spend two weeks in Trinidad and Tobago. My good friend Kevin Fortune, who I met in college, is from Trinidad and was a phenomenal tour guide. I stayed away from computers, cell phones and any reading materials related to the economy and/or the environment. <br><br> <br>

... meal times, and the crazy Caribbean humidity.<br><br>The night was slow with turtles, and much of it was spent watching groups of tourists slowly appear in the darkness, stumble past with shoes and flip-flops in hand, laughing and drinking, sometimes seeing us and stopping to ask us strange drunken questions. The tourists were streaming all through Zone 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 to see the turtles that had been slow to arrive for the past several days. But Peter, Chris and ...

... and water bottles that were floating nearby. To the rescue!! Whoop!! Yeeeeeehawwwww!!!! Within minutes, Peter and Lee were once again seated in their double kayak, and Richard was perched atop his single. Ready to conquer the ocean, we turned our tips again toward the island. But something was strange. Peter and Lee looked ragged and floppy, and their technique left much to be desired. I hadn't noticed their technique before, but surely it must have led to the ...

... and stood outside the Honda with beer bottles in hand. I saw them saunter up to the visitor counter and that was when the heat turned on. Now mind you, the only activity occurring on this protected beach at this time of night was turtle viewing. And I wondered in my own thoughts what possessed these four guys to make the drive through the Matura jungle, over potholed, muddy roads, to this secluded destination at 1:00 a.m. Turtle viewing? Ah, no. They began to cause a ruckus ...

... jours. A la fin des 2 jours les participants sont juges sur la danse et leur costume. Des 8am les gens enfilent leur costume se preparent un bon verre de rhum et d'autres boissons tres fortes et se mettent a danser au rythme d'une musique, qu'apres une journee je qualifie d'infarnale. Bien que cette musique qui etait 20 fois trop forte me tombait un peu sur les nerfs, je me suis surprise ...

... sections (some consisting of thousands of revelers) which reflect these themes. After following a route where various judging points are located, the mas bands eventually converge on the Queen's Park Savannah to pass "on the stage" to be judged once and for all. We got to see all ...

... bottle-show that entertained us outside Monty & Bunty´s bar...an old, dirty, almost toothless, grinning man, dancing on the corner (nothing unsual so far) who arranged various glass bottles into small towers, sometimes using a little water to help balance them. To highlight his creations, the guy would pour some metho around these towers of up to 4 bottles in height and then light the alcohol (which surprised me as I thought he would have preffered to consume it!). But ...

Today I went down to the Yacht Club to go to the islands on a friend's boat. There were eleven of us that went out to Scotland Bay. The ride out there was beautiful. The bay itself wasn't spectacular - there was no beach. But what was cool is that all the boats seem to go to the same area. People just go from boat to boat partying.

... This caught on a bit and got people around me yelling for "Cream in de Cuffy!" I was encouraged to go on. I yelled a new one, "I'd like some cream, some sugar, and a WICKET with my Coffee!" Ooh. I'd choked. By mis-pronouncing the bowler's name, my heckle lost all validity. The crowd found this about as funny as my landlady finds it when I don't wash my hands after going to the bathroom. After much time, the West Indies bowled Tendulkar out for 117 runs. The West ...

... drink, they just get happier. Secondly, it's common for young Trinis to drink and lime with their parents. Thirdly, you can get plenty inebriated in Trinidad, and it's still legal for you to drive a car. Dexter drove me home from the marina, holding a rum and soda in his hand! And fourthly - especially difficult for somebody of my upbringing to get used to - Trinis apparently don't sleep in the sink after they've drank a lot. Somebody could've told me. We went down the islands ...