Jamaica wasn't as bad as I had imagined. We didn't venture far, we really didn't have time, but after our shopping expedition and two meals out at a nearby restaurant it was time to board the plane again.
Of course the plane was delayed and we went to a completely different island than what we expected on the way, but this is of course second nature to us now so we really can't be suprised.
I just wish we'd had the room in our bags to buy lots of stuff in Jamaica because EVERYTHING was so cheap. Must be one of the few currencies around the world that make the NZ dollar look fantasticly strong.
So here we are back in Barbados. Our accommodation is a little disappointing, a little like the Penitentiary in Grenada. We're in a cell with air conditioning that you have to pay per hour for, and lumpy old single beds. But at least there is a pool (admittedly with old cigarette butts floating in it) and the wireless internet is free, and the shower has good pressure.
I fear, however, that the laundry we sent off the other day is gone for good. But I'll be happy to stand corrected.
Never mind, we only have three nights left to enjoy in the Caribbean and I doubt we'll ever get back without having a substantial financial windfall.
It is very interesting to be staying in a different part of Barbados to our first time here. We are north of the cricket stadium this time, where there are a lot of resort type hotels and a very swanky golf course. Lots of construction too, so it will probably look very different in five years. Hardly any of the poverty or unfinished buildings we saw in the south of the island.
We will have the car Reuters booked until we leave the country which is a bonus, so we'll actually be able to spend a bit of Monday and maybe tomorrow seeing more of the island.
The forecast isn't that flash though, rain is predicted for the next week!!!
The big cricket finale has finally got underway after some pretty torrential rain, but the sky doesn't look very promising so there could be more delays to come.
I just checked out the relevant website to see I didn't win Radio Journalist of the Year, so won't be celebrating that tonight!!! However its pretty cool to be a finalist after only 10 months in radio.
Would be a bit much of an ego clash to have the Photographer of the Year and the Radio Journalist of the Year living in the same house I suppose :-)
