Monteray Apartment Hotel Christ Church

... people gyrated (I suppose it was dancing?) in colourful costumes – or rather accessories! All to celebrate the end of the sugar cane harvest and the success of the rum production!

On one day we hired a car and explored the island – marvelling at the ferocious seas of the Atlantic at Animal Flower caves and Bathsheba compared to our gently lapping, clear, warm, blue waters on the west coast ...

... going to Cuba and making a raft - anything to just get onto American soil. People were fighting to get whatever ticket they could. I was trying to avoid doing that but left it a little too late. So if I was going to be buying a ticket to get anywhere next week I may as well go to Canada, as that part of my itinerary is set whereas nothing was booked for the US. The nice guy at the AC desk ...

This is my third day trying to get out of the island on standby. I was 38/47 on the list earlier. So many families of staff members using their tickets for holiday.. It's insanity. It seems to be impossible to get out of the Caribbean right now! Hopefully I'll figure out something soon, otherwise I may have to cancel parts of my itinerary.. :(

... by then, so we went to chill by Sam's house instead. Played some pool [well they did, i did photographer duty], and went in his pool too! Lots of chlorine for my hair, yay..

Then night fell and today stopped being quite so laidback. We had to go drop Kim back home up on the west coast, and we were all in Sam's truckbed just driving up the highway at night and talking a lot of random ****. Coming out of Kim's gap proved interesting though. By that point the two ...

Dear Blog,

As much as I enjoyed this morning's excursion, this afternoon, I am off to a coast to coast scenic drive of Barbados. I opted for this excursion because I wanted to take in as much as possible of the island's highlights.

After we boarded our air-conditioned mini bus, off we went through the center of Bridgetown. We saw sights such as Heroes Square and the Houses of Parliament. We then drove by the Lion at Gun Hill Signal ...

... arrived in Barbados this morning at 7:00am under a warm blue sunny sky. A new day, a new adventure. Today promises to be quite exciting since we will be swimming with sea turtles and tropical fishes. Lets hope they show up!

As we disembarked the ship around 8:00am , we met with our tour guide and followed him to another pier to board a really nice sleek, power boat for a high-speed ride to Turtle Bay ...

Heute Morgen staunte ich nicht schlecht als die berühmt berüchtigte karibische Sonne durch mein Fenster schien. Zum ersten Mal in diesem Urlaub war der Himmel blau. So stelle ich mir Urlaub vor! Auf meinem Programm stand heute der hohe Norden. Also rein ins Auto und auf dem Highway in 30min bis knapp an die Nordküste. Die Sonne prasselte herunter das es eine Freude war. Zum Glück geht auf Barbados immer ein nettes Windchen, sodass es ...

... called the CWC North Stand BUT it was on the Eastern side of the Ground. As we have learnt in our travels in the Caribbean some things are not what they seem. There were reportedly some significant celebrations of Australia's third consecutive World Cup win with much partying into the early hours of the morning and much use made of fixed entry price, all-you-can-drink type of bars with predictable results.

... I was in a spaceship and we were cruising through the galaxies. If there was a sharp jolt to one side I would guess that we were just dodging an asteroid. Today for lunch we opted for the Lido deck where we got into deep conversations, as usual. This time we learned about a Bosnian refugee who's dream is to go to New York. I also met a fellow writer who read a few of my pieces and expressed interest. I told them about ...

... to reiterate that i am proud and thankful that i am being offered a chance to be a part of an important UWI tradition. i dunno though, i always was against hazing (like in frats or sports teams or things like that) and maybe the process is just brainwashing me or something. let me know what you think. i guess i should talk about school, since apparently i am here to study and actually take classes. yesterday i registered for my classes. registration was done online for the first ...