Blogs from Trinidad & Tobago, Central America Caribbean - page 11

Trinidad was not on our list of countries to visit, but it was the best way to fly from Caracas to Georgetown as there were no direct flights. We decided to stay a few days since we were there. It was strange arriving in Port of Spain. We had been travelling South America for two and a half months, so this english speaking Caribbean island was something very different. The taxi man spoke english and drove on the left. The cars were more modern and drivers more courteous. We stayed with Mona at her bed and breakfast, a lovely old colonial house close to the center of town. Her house was on a 90s postage stamp. We arrived quite late in the afternoon so first job was to eat. Lots of restaurants were just a few ... read more

url='/Videos/3996.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3996.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Turtle Nesting Our last full day we had booked an organised tour to Speyside (having been twice we were looking forward to the commentary etc). The bus picked us up and we drove up the coast. It lashed it down with rain, the roads looked like rivers, we were glad it was someone else driving. The guide was brilliant and told us lots of interesting things about the island. Our first stop for a drink at a view point and as we got off the bus the rain stopped, perfect timing. As we got back on the rain came again. Our second stop, the Argyle Falls, and the rain stopped again. We walked through the rain forest for twenty minutes and came to the falls, it was beautiful. I changed into my swim wear, ... read more

An early breakfast was required as we had an early pick up from the dive centre. The boss arrived in his pickup truck and headed to the centre, the driver chatted away. He asked Wayne if he liked driving, and if he could drive. The next thing we knew he had pulled over and given Wayne the keys telling us to take ourselves to the centre as he lived just here and it would save him the need for a taxi. Fortunately Wayne was happy to drive, when we arrived the girl at the centre was a bit surprised that we had come ourselves, but it is the Caribbean so anything goes! We sorted our kit out and loaded the van. I squeezed into the back with 2 other divers and Wayne and the dive ... read more

I lost the original text for this entry. I am sad about this! Wayne and I spent a day diving in Tobago. We saw lots of lovely things. We went for 'local food' for our lunch. I had crab and dumplings. The dumplings were pasty white slime things, the crab was almost whole and uncracked, covered in a scanky brown sauce. When I asked how to get to the meat, the answer was with my teeth. CRACK - the noise was horrid, the taste disgusting and it felt really bad. I had a go and gave up! Wayne had an equally bad dinner Roti - it was grotti!! We went to a local store and bought the funniest named condom ever as a souvenier for our Biker pal Jan! Rough Rider - with a girl biker ... read more

Our car arrived in the morning, a good looking Nissan saloon, with fantastic air conditioning and absolutely NO petrol! Mission 1: to find one of the 8 petrol stations on the island and fill up. This was fairly easy as 6 of all 8 petrol stations were within easy reach of the resort. We then looked at the map (possibly the most useless map ever!) and decided to do a round trip of the island. Tobago is a very small island (42km long 10km wide) however none of the roads were straight, and no of them ran very level - the island has lots and lots of steep hills (the highest point is 550m). This meant that our journey around the island took us 5 hours. We stopped at lots of beautiful view points, and ... read more