Blogs from Jamaica, Central America Caribbean - page 3

In 2014, we spent a week in Jamaica staying with locals but that was on the other side of the island. Although Theresa has been to Ocho Rios before, this will be George´s first visit. After seeing so many ships in port yesterday, we are unsure of taxi availability for today, so have booked a ship tour to the nearby Dunns River Falls. The ride to the falls was short, but our friendly bus driver pointed out all the local landmarks, and also explained how it works inside the falls. We are fascinated by the local Creole language. We like the Jamaican people. We are so glad we bought the water shoes in Florida. They are charging $10 a pair at the falls. We paid that for both our pairs. Our initial intention was to change ... read more

After arriving at Miami....... We tried to hire a car, but our stolen bag had our drivers licences in it, and the temporary documents we had been sent for a driver licence wasn't enough to hire a car, so we got our personal assistant Jillian our wonderful daughter to post Glens driver licence to us in Miami. We were told 6 days in the post, so we thought we would travel to Jamaica until they arrived. After spending a couple of days looking around Miami we flew to Jamaica. Arriving at Montego Bay we were picked up from the airport by our host family Lenroy and Fiona who ran a small hotel. Lenroy is our age and Fiona is about twenty years younger who had a young baby six months old. We instantly got on with ... read more

So, I think were on our third day in Belmont, Jamaica. Woke up and boiled a pot of fresh Blue Mountain Coffee on our gas stove. Got our morning herbal supplements in order sipped on our coffee and planned our day out. We ended up walking to Bluefields Beach which was suppose to be a little bit up the road, it wasn't. Crystal and I walked about 2-3 miles along this windy road. Cars, motorcycles, buses, taxis, and construction trucks roared down this narrow road way, with us walking along the side. At one point we were walking around a corner and I pulled Crystal back as a HUGE gravel truck blasted and inch from our noses. I looked back to see Crystals eyes as wide as they get and all I could say was the ... read more

Where to start I'm not sure. Grammar sucks, if it's written well that means crystal typed the entry. There we were though flying into Montego Bay, Jamaica. All we had was our packs, a name of a person that was suppose to pick us up, and there cars description. So we had a Red Stripe and waited. Red Stripes in Jamaica taste a whole lot better then back home. Gertie (Lydia Okan), our Rastafarian friend for the next week and the reason our adventure came together, picked us up in her red suzuki. All I knew about her was what I read on facebook and the fact I arranged this meeting. We were off to Belmont, just head south through the mountains to black river then follow the signs to Bluefields. We stayed in a small ... read more

Hi Guys, just a quick blog on my Memorial Day Weekend trip to Jamaica. I was born and raised in Kingston (Yeah yeah I know, everyone is from Kingston LOL) and I moved to NYC in 2002. This trip was my 3rd trip back since I left but this one was exciting than the others since I was going with two friends whom have never been. We arrived in Montego bay late afternoon and I promptly asked our driver to take us to the jerk pit before we head to our resort The grand Palladium Resort and Spa( best jerk chicken and jerk pork ever!!). Most of our time was spent lounging at the pool with rum punches or frolicking by the beach. Of course we went to the infamous Dunns River and i highly recommend ... read more