New Haddon Hotel Kingstown

... and headed to town for provisions on the public bus. The Bequia bus is not your ordinary public transportation, nor like any you could imagine. There are several buses that run you all over town for about 1EC (1 US dollar = 2.6 ECs). The buses are mini vans racing through the streets blaring reggae music with locals jamming to the beat inside. What a fun and unique experience. The roads in Bequia are paved, but sketchy to say the least ...

... so that we could see into the volcano crater and take photos&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;but &#8230;&#8230;nothing. It was too cold to wait motionless for long &#8211; so it was time to retrace our steps back to the minibus for a celebratory rum punch! Fun!<br><br>That cloud heralded our only run of bad weather&#8230;..and boy, does it know how to rain in the Caribbean!......so, many crosswords and sudokus later, it was off to the airport for our flight to Barbados!

... Bay in the lee of Basil's. The black sky above loomed ominously - but not for long, as the sky was darkening at a rapid rate to ebony. What followed has given me confidence and strength. Thorpe Park, Disney, Universal Studios - eat your hearts out. We survived 45 white knuckle minutes with Zoot. For most of those minutes our bums were not in contact with the "seat", whereas out hands were clinging on to various obscure bits of the boat for dear ...

... as a ******* country enters the modern world walking backwards. How can a country be so lame and inefficient and incompetent that they can't even keep a 40km. stretch of road- one of the country's only two overland links to the outside world mind you- open and navigable? I could take one of the small boats that shuttle locals back and forth illegally, but there's no guarantee I could get stamped into Guyana. The nice ladies at the Guyanese ...

... smarkiai - kaip mazi lektuveliai...Kai jau persirenginejome masinoje takeliu praejo tris vietines zmogystos su mecetemis rankose ir kuprinemis ant peciu. tai marichuanos augintojai. Butu nesmagu man juos vienam sutikti... 8. Nuveze mane i visai nebloga viesbuti prie juros. Panasu, kad ten gyvenau vienas  nes per vakariene nieko nebuvo. Kojos atrodo apgailetinai. Rankos kiek geriau. 9. Isvada: lipdamas i St Lucia kalna vis galvojau, kad lenkiu galva pries tuos ...

... has to be one of the prettiest anchorages we've found yet. Unfortunately, everyone else thinks so, too. We have to be on anchor watch to make sure that no one anchors too close. We walked up and over the hill on a nicely paved road to the Catholic church at the top of the hill. What a view! A magazine article stated that Mayreau now has 7 cars. It was a delight to be able to walk without fear of bodily harm. We were cleared by one truck in Bequia by a mere six inches ...

... suites, but the five simple guest rooms on the second floor of the main house are a steal (www.frangipanibequia.com, 784-458-3255). The peach-color colonial house with pastel blue accents, huge verandas on three sides, and a palm-studded lawn of a former Caribbean plantation is now under Italian management as the Plantation House Hotel. The hotel sprawls along the oceanside Belmont Walkway and is lined with ...

... it didn't reappear for 5 days, I should have flown home then. Whilst in Trinidad my bank card stopped working, which left me in St. Vincent with no money, no accomodation, and no food- I don't even have body fat to live off. It got to the stage of choosing which fingers and toes had proven the least useful in my lifetime, and what type of sauce to marinate them in. I finally decided upon both index fingers and my left middle toe, in a Jerk Chicken mix. But thankfully ...

... I would collapsed into a jibbering heap. Kim went on a guided tour with Dianne, and saw..... Bryan Adams (great, told her I once met Timmy Mallet and Russ Abbott- she, not knowing who they were assumed they were Hollywood A-listers and was duly impressed) Though a week before we arrived Jay-Z and Beyonce were there, along with Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves and Keanu Reeves' boyfriend.. Like I said odd place! Because its out of bounds to the general public, you'll ...

... as we saw all the bright coloured fish i was well away[good job too as being in the water was the only place to keep cool!!!].We had a brilliant time on the island ,and yes our boat did turn up to take us back to civilisation,but my birthday will never be forgotton ,and next march 24 i will no doubt be at work ,looking out at the rain ,trying to imagine i was back on OUR ISLAND. We had a few hours ...