The Cobblestone Inn Kingstown

... and exhausted! Well, may as well try and make it, I thought, so gritted my teeth and dragged myself upward with burning thighs…..and then the real hardship began – we were now in the cloud and it was cold – really cold – and then the wind started whipping across the area just below the rim of the crater and nearly blew us over. We huddled together and ate our lunch still being buffeted by the howling wind waiting for the cloud to ...

... a plantation) - the accommodation was wonderful(we were the only guests) and the horrors of the journey were forgotten in a short time.We only had 2 days and so we explored the beaches and enjoyed the hotel - we liked what we saw - very unspoilt, very pretty, beautiful beaches and not the least bit touristy apart as a stopping place for lots of posh yachts touring the Grenadines. We were so lucky with the weather - every time we went inside for ...

... but purple selling VERY expensive souvenirs , and most importantly - Basil's Bar a cobbled together wood/corrugated iron/thatched platform stretching our over the sea and prevented from not being consumed by the same purely by the will of God, and the uplifted spitits (mainly rum) of its occupants. They have a local brew called Sunset which makes rocket fuel seem positively sedate by comparison. Next to the ...

... the Christmas season is over or I'd be screwed. As it is I get my life back for under $300, so it could be worse. I go back to Paramaribo to catch a flight out, wanting nothing so much as to just leave, and never come back. I've seen some sloppy operations in my life but this is a cake-taker to be sure. To make it worse the mini-van driver has 80's pop-schlock greatest hits playing at a full gigabel all the way back, over and over, grinning like some ...

... sales. We stayed in Mayreau specifically to go to the church service on Sunday at the pretty little church with rough-hewn rocks and timbers. We asked two girls who were on the church grounds what time the service was. One said she thought it was 9:00 or maybe a little earlier, maybe 8:30. OK. Sunday morning we launched the dinghy and headed in to shore to begin the climb to church. We arrived at the church at 8:30 and were greeted by a woman who said they were almost ...

I'm down in Villa Beach in St Vincent, relaxing by the beach after a busy few days. After leaving St Lucia I flew into the Vincy capital of Kingstown, and immediately jumped on the ferry down to the Grenadine island of Bequia (beck-way). It was Easter Saturday, and the ferry was jumping, the bar was open and everyone was having a blast. I met a whole bunch of people of Barbados and Trinidad who told me that, at Easter time, Bequia is the place to be. What a delightful ...

... isolated, award-winning yet understated property does not focus on the beach. Rather, it is an ideal place for those seeking peace, quiet, and delicious West Indian food in informal, aesthetically pleasing surroundings www.springonbequia.com, 784-458-3414). For Your Safety Bequia takes pride in its relatively crime-free existence. Although whiffs of marijuana can be smelled regularly, the sale of it is rather ...

... I would give away clues of the storyline and why we were rowing, but if I do, Disney has the rights to my first born. Let me say now, there is nothing on earth wierder than Hollywood, I couldn't say that before because I never experienced it, but now I have, and say it, I certainly can! Six of us extras quickly got together and formed the Knot Club (so called because in our spare time, we practised tying knots- clever use of the term eh?) Though I think Rat-Pack would ...

... Island, and made a good impact I think. Two Thursdays ago, it being Kareoke night (Kareoke is HUGE here, 2nd only to Japan) we went the rangers and their families to WATCH, see what I've written here? To WATCH the Kareoke, that was my plan and I was sticking to it, just a couple of beers, and WATCH, JJ and Albert the Rangers thought I looked like a boy with a sweet voice, so they produced a $90US (a huge amount here) bottle of whiskey for us to drink, and proceeded to ...

... Fried Chicken. They are real proud of that. Apparently there was a McDonalds here at one time, but the islanders don't eat red meat and it closed. I guess that explains the cows walking around without a care in the world. We ended up in the dock area where there was a lot of activity going on. He explained the fishermen had just returned with their catches for the fishing contest. He excitedly took me over to the largest group of men and I saw what they ...