Tag Archive | barbados
Days of Empire…
There is a continuous and ongoing debate about empires and specifically about the British Empire particularly amongst Members of Parliament who often wax lyrically about the “days of empire” – David Cameron is merely the latest of our Prime Minister’s to refer to our glorious days of empire when Great Britain owned half the known [...]
Video Saturday – The Fugees
Bet you thought I’d be the last one to include a hip-hop group on his blog didn’t you ? Sitting at the outside bar at Club Rockley Barbados on your own in the evening’s very quick twilight, waiting for the restaurant to open, sipping at this evenings first free ice cold Banks’ lager, you had [...]
Chattel House
Wherever you travel on Barbados you’ll come across these small wooden huts no bigger than your average sized garage which appear to be inhabited by whole families, some look more permanent structures than others, some have verandas, some have two huts joined together, many are now roadside rum shacks offering replenishment to the weary traveller [...]
The one about the birds…
Barbados is a beautiful island, of that there is no doubt, Bajan people are among the warmest and friendliest people I have ever met, of that there is no doubt. Their birdlife leaves a lot to be desired though, the birds on Barbados are some of the rudest most pushy birds I have ever encountered, [...]
Another drinking story
So I had a week to fill in during that first demonstration trip to Barbados, I spent a few days showing them the software and they decided to order it straight away, so that was my trip finished, objective gained, nothing to do now but wait until my flight returned next week then, ho hum. [...]
The one about the cockroach
On my first visit to the tropical paradise island of Barbados I was given an apartment at the very top of the old plantation site, one of twenty clustered around their own little swimming pool with the hotel’s golf course winding its way around this and several other apartment clusters. It was quite nice. For [...]
The presence of children…
Sometimes adults can take life too seriously, sometimes we forget to just sit back and let someone else take control of our lives, even just for an hour or so, let someone else do the driving, be at their mercy, its not your problem. Such an occasion presented it to myself two weeks before christmas, [...]
