The Sugar Mill Suites Scarborough

... of swimming and watersports opportunities it really has an ideal location. The Coco Reef offers bed & breakfast and an All Inclusive arrangement. Further along the Caribbean coast is the Plantation Villas ...

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 ...

... pretty funny and very drunk themselves. In between the goat races they held two crab races. The second was the international race and anyone whose country wasn't yet represented could join. England was taken all too quickly, but I managed to persuade/force katrine to represent Norway. Using a stick, the jockeys had to guide the crabs over a measly two metre course. Katrine's ...

... and she mentioned they might want to meet me too. i arrive on thursday call them on friday morning and by friday afternoon we're having a gorgeous local lunch and having a great time. i'm told to get some rest "cos tonight we lime". ummm, ok. when they pick me up my attire dictates that we can't go to a club (clubs require fancy clothes, i have on the backpacker's special) so we head to a jazz bar and have some drinks ...

It's interesting to learn more about the language here. Although it is English, many words have different meanings. For example, we have been amazed at the lack of any real variety of fresh fruit. We expected to see all kinds of fruit, but have not. Other than some basic bananas, a few pinepapples, and the occasional paw paw, there is nothing! Unfortunately, there are mangos, but they ...

So, Hallo mitenand... Mittlerwiile isch scho wieder mitti Februar und ich hocke irgendwo z´Venezuela ime Internetkafi. d¨Ziit z¨Trinidad isch leider scho verbii und ich mues saege, es isch wuerkli... unbeschriiblich gsi. Vor allem die letscht wuche isch sehr intensiv gsi waegem Carnival. Staendig simmer a Parties gange oder a irgendwelchi Familiefeschter haend nur tanzed und gaesse (d´Hose zwicked au scho chli) und waemmer ...

There is a reason they call it the rain forest! Unfortunately it has been raining pretty much non stop since we arrived. We did finally get our luggage which in and of itself was miracle. We have toured the leeward side of the isalnd and the beaches at Castara and Englishmen's Bay really are ...

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...

... gave us a chance to get around and explore the island, learn to drive on the left hand side, see the tourists sights, and sample some of the local cuisine. We are staying in a villa on a golf course. The house has a main area with a kitchen and three bedrooms, then on the other side of the pool is a small apartment with another kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. This was the perfect set up because we could buy groceries and ...

... was brown. Visibility was only eight or ten feet, and I feared I might run into coral. It was a good thing this Michigaggon hadn't forgotten his ganders! I mean, that this Michigander hadn't forgotten his goggles. The waves crashed roughly near me when I surfaced, and being far from land was scary and exhilirating. The black angels - spade-shaped black fish with yellow dots - were also fearless, swimming with me in the murk amid coral channels and deep below ...