"No!" I said, "you know how much I detest being stuck on a boat, especially a Marella, all inclusive one, full of lager swilling, beer bellies, football shirts and chav tattoos,(AND that is just the women!) add in the happy clappy, fake bonhomie of the "entertainment team"; "Done one of them and I said... we agreed
NEVER AGAIN"
So three weeks later I found myself in the Caribbean! It was only 8 days, it was a good deal, I was made an offer I couldn't refuse, I have very little will power.
Where did we dock? a few islands, Bridgetown, Barbados, St John's, Antigua, Basseterre, St Kitts, Philipsburg, St Maarten, Road Town, British Virgin Islands and well at ....thankfully only one full day at sea. So here are a few random images that amused me, from here there and everywhere.
Every port you step off at looks the same, tat shops, built especially to cater for the ships, all selling the same sort of crap, the only difference being the place name on the "made in china" fridge magnets
Loved this sign in St Kitts, guess you are buggered if you expect to die on a weekend and I wonder how many turn up in the dead of night to collect the "remains"
Small Islands big traffic problems
Piss on de man garden! Someone is unhappy, Keep Calm smoke more weed.
Man they certainly take death seriously, remember folks "Do not forget the voice".
decent street art
and well being polite...
...some pretty shit stuff too
Quick hide the kids, michael jackson is in town
In the centre of a roundabout in Basseterre known as The Circus is Berkeley Memorial. A clock tower and water fountain was created in Glasgow, Scotland and erected in 1883 to Thomas B.H. Berkeley, a wealthy owner of several plantations on the island.
the makers, advertised themselves as 'Art Metal Workers, Iron Founders and Sanitary Engineers' in business from 1858 to 1899
Now being served at the best Italian Restaurant in the Caribbean
Seeing as it is that time in the holiday calendar, I thought I would just chuck in my favourite seasonal song of all time.
