Enchanted Waters Tobago

... the Red Sea Riviera (Sharm el Shiekh, Hurghada and Taba Heights) the Arabian Gulf (Dubai, Oman, Qatar and Abu Dhabi), the Indian Ocean (Goa, Maldives, Seychelles, Sri Lanka) the Caribbean Islands ( Antigua ...

... very deep. 'Deep enough to jump from the top' I thought. I didn't want to scare my mum, although of course I did, but it just looked so appealing. In the end I couldn't find a place with a small enough curve that I felt I could safely enough jump from the top so I climbed down a little. My mum was happy about that. She also fell in love with a higher level waterfall which you could shower in. She felt like she was in a film (although I reckon she really meant 'I'm a celebrity...').

Tobago celebrates Easter by holding their famous (to them) goat races. When we got there i was worried to hear that the goats had jockeys. Fortunately for the goats though, the comical image of a full grown man on a goat was left to my imagination as the jockeys had to run alongside their goat to steer them and spur them on. It was all very fun after a few beers and the comentators ...

... delicious food. it's really a nice place and one of the brothers is crushing on the hostess. he throws her some lines ("hair, on. nails, on") and she proceeds to melt and give him her number. oh, and he mentions to me that he has a sex swing in his bedroom. it's tiger print. and he has a chocolate pen. this girl has got it coming. he's perry the more carefree, naughty twin. paul is the more conservative stable twin ...

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...

... night's excitement we decided we should postphone the relaxation and get out to find some supplies. That meant a visit to the capital (Scarborough) on the busiest day of the month (payday on market Friday) was on. Villages and old sugar mills set amongst hilly, tropical countryside tumbled by as the old but very groovy Nissan taxi ...