Originally posted: Friday, 3 April 2009
Hello all again, hope you are well. Barbados was a nice carribean sojourn that was again in contrast to Barcelona and the other places I have visited. On the first day I was there, I was walking with a local, and they told me that I was walking too fast...
It is really a place where it is very easy to forget about the time, and then what day it is, and so on, until you just realise that you eat when you are hungry, drink when thirsty, and sleep when tired.
The schedule was similar to Phuket; swim,
banks beer, swim, banks beer etc. But it was slightly better here because 1) less tourists, 2) more waves for body surfing and 3) the locals are better.
Having said that, some repeat tourists I met said that they couldn't believe how quiet the tourist season had been this year. Another concern according to them is the degrading of the beaches over the last 15 yeasrs or so - apparently the beaches have receded about 30-50 meters from where they once were.
Regardless, the locals are some of the nicest people to meet, but you do get the sense that they are getting a bit tired of all the honkys in their country. But I got the best idea what kind of people they are when I went to the 2 cricket games there, which was awesome.
The first day in particular, I was sitting a stand that was predominantly locals, and the whole time is like a party. People call out to each other to say hello, theres music, drums, horns, lots off calling out and sledging, and once they realised I was from Australia and not Eng-u-lund, there was high fives all round.
I also discovered that I HATE touring: Going on a car or bus for 20 minutes, get out, take a picture, walk around for 5 minutes, get back in the car for 20 minutes. Eat some shit food. Rubbish. Wasted a day doing that.
It has a community spirit that was
reminiscent of holidays to Kangaroo Island as a youngster, and a pace that takes a few days to adjust to. The food was not as good as some of the other places I've visited, but again I was told that the taste has been 'dumbed down' for the tourists.
Hello all again, hope you are well. Barbados was a nice carribean sojourn that was again in contrast to Barcelona and the other places I have visited. On the first day I was there, I was walking with a local, and they told me that I was walking too fast...
It is really a place where it is very easy to forget about the time, and then what day it is, and so on, until you just realise that you eat when you are hungry, drink when thirsty, and sleep when tired.
The schedule was similar to Phuket; swim,
banks beer, swim, banks beer etc. But it was slightly better here because 1) less tourists, 2) more waves for body surfing and 3) the locals are better.Having said that, some repeat tourists I met said that they couldn't believe how quiet the tourist season had been this year. Another concern according to them is the degrading of the beaches over the last 15 yeasrs or so - apparently the beaches have receded about 30-50 meters from where they once were.
Regardless, the locals are some of the nicest people to meet, but you do get the sense that they are getting a bit tired of all the honkys in their country. But I got the best idea what kind of people they are when I went to the 2 cricket games there, which was awesome.
The first day in particular, I was sitting a stand that was predominantly locals, and the whole time is like a party. People call out to each other to say hello, theres music, drums, horns, lots off calling out and sledging, and once they realised I was from Australia and not Eng-u-lund, there was high fives all round.
I also discovered that I HATE touring: Going on a car or bus for 20 minutes, get out, take a picture, walk around for 5 minutes, get back in the car for 20 minutes. Eat some shit food. Rubbish. Wasted a day doing that.
It has a community spirit that was
reminiscent of holidays to Kangaroo Island as a youngster, and a pace that takes a few days to adjust to. The food was not as good as some of the other places I've visited, but again I was told that the taste has been 'dumbed down' for the tourists.
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