Terrible that we lost. Oh well. There'll be another game soon enough.
It was only a warm up with not very many media and not much of a crowd but it certainly was a good example of how frantic and frustrating things will become as this World Cup progresses. The security is incredible - Simon couldn't believe it when the gate security guards asked him to put on some of the sunblock he was carrying to make sure it wasn't some chemical bomb he was smuggling in.
The local are a bit peeved about the tight security and its been a talkback issue here today because some police were not allowed into the stadium without being searched. I think that says more about the police than the officious cricket organisers though.
We finished work about 12 hours after we started and hitched a ride home with a British journo who has hired this funny little car that has no doors. You certainly get to take in all the sights and sounds of Barbados when you're hurtling through the streets in one of those.
Anyway today was a bit cruisier, went to the Hilton to watch the cricketers swimming pool session then out to the Windward cricket club for more training. Its about 40 mins drive away which is fine if your taxi driver know where to go.
Today we met the one and only West Indian who knows nothing about cricket or where cricket clubs are - he took us completely the wrong way before we made him ring some people to ask for directions to the cricket club!!! Even then he had to stop at a roadside shop and ask, then flag down someone on a motorbike to ask MORE directions which he really loathed doing.
I can't imagine why he didn't have a map!!!!! (maybe its a man thing????)
