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June 25 A weekend in BarbadosDan was on a business trip in Barbados a couple of weeks ago and it turned out that he was going to be there over the weekend, so I went down to join him on the Friday because we found a reasonable flight and the hotel/car were already covered because he was on business. The trip was really short, which made it hard to really relax, but we both really enjoyed our time there. Barbados is really pretty but very, very small!
The first evening, we went to Bert's Bar, which is a sports bar owned by the guy who owns the Ottawa Senators. There was no hockey that night so we had a couple of beers and went out to have dinner at the St. Laurence Gap, a big tourist area.
The next day, we went to Crane Beach which was absolutely stunning. The waves were a bit rough and after getting tossed around quite violently in the waves and getting all of our stuff soaked when the waves got a bit rougher, I was ready to head back to the hotel. Having lived in the Caribbean for quite some time now, there are some days that I am just really not in the mood to have sand all over everything. There was a hockey game that night, so we went out to Bert's Bar again. Yes, we did realize that spending two out of our three nights in Barbados at a hockey bar is slightly pathetic... but it was the Stanley Cup finals, so we really had no choice in the matter. At the bar, we met a woman who worked for the ministry of tourism in Barbados and she suggested that we drive around the island to a couple of different sites because it only takes 2 1/2 hours to tour the whole of Barbados!
The next day, we did exactly that. We went for brunch at a hundred-year old hotel called Atlantis. The view was amazing but the hotel.... well, it just looked like it was a hundred years old. We walked around for a bit after our brunch and the rocky coast was absolutely stunning, and it was nice to get a good walk in. We then went to another beach on the other side of the island but I forget the name. It was your standard Caribbean white-sand beach but the water was just beautiful. It was warm but refreshing and the waves were rolling in just perfectly. That night, we went out to the St. Laurence Gap for dinner and ended up at a Jamaican reggae bar, which turned out to be the local gangsta bar. We had instant street cred because we live in Kingston, so we met some interesting people, drank some great Trini beer and headed back to the hotel.
It was a pretty low key weekend but it was great to get out of Kingston for a bit and see another part of the Caribbean. Although the atmosphere in Barbados was fantastic and so relaxing, I really appreciated the fact that Jamaica is so big and there are so many places to explore; living in Kingston is definitely not ideal (and we're fortunate enough to have it much easier than most people here) but I'd take it over a smaller island any day. TrackbacksWeblogs that reference this entry
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