Barbados #2

The Rihanna concert was wild! I loved everything, the show, the music the dancing and last but not least the woman is fantastic. Very cool to see her perfom in her own homecountry, and it was very clear that it was special for her too. The audience waas great as well, and the atmosphere was great and the mood on top all the way through the concert. It was great!

Anyways, I think it's been a bit too long since the last time I updated you so here comes a little summary of the last days. We put of one whole day to hiking and we joined a touristgroup that took us for a walk through the very famous limestone caves. The limestone caves were overwhelming to walk in to, I have never seen anything like it. The tour guide showed us around, and then we got to walk around on our own for a little while and take pictures. Here are one of my own pictures and one i found just to illustrate what such a cave can look like from the outside:

We also went on a touristguided tour to the Barbados museum yesterday, to learn a bit of both culture and language. Did you for example know that Barbados has it's own englishinfluished language? Because of the parents trying to teach their children a new language, some of the loqals at Barbados speak english with some kind of West-African accent. The language is called bajan, but really it's just  another form for twisted/different english. We also learnt that the Barbadosflag is is blue, yellow and black, which stands for the sands, the oceans surrounding the island and the trident is from the colonial badge. It's starting to get late in Barbados now, so we'll take the history part i've learned later. Bye!

-Raggie

Barbados #1

We've been on this Island for about 3 days now, and I love it here! The climate is lovely, it's like 25-30 degrees in daytime and people walk around shopping in bikinis on the street. I've heard that the climate is steadily warm all year around because it's so close to equator, but the northeast wind blows steadily so that it's still bearably hot. Can't say I have started to miss Norway yet, right now it feels like I could stay here forever! I have spent most of the last days at the beach, but the beach outside the hotel is quite crowded so we talked to the loqals and let them tell us where to go. A taxidriver told us that "when you visit a place so crowded an full of tourists like this, you should go where the loqals go, go outside your comfort zone", and we want to see as much of this island as possible as long we're here.

So, the last two days we've gone to a beach called Harrismiths beach on the eastside and I absolutely loved it. It's a bit outside the most touristcrowded beaches, and I would certainly reccommend it to everyone who's going there. It's harder to get to because it involves a bit of hiking since the surroundings are quite hilly, but it's absolutely worth it when you get there because the place is much more idyllic and hidden, it's the kind of place you would like to visit if you're going to a paradise island like Barbados. If you want to make sure that you get a whole beach by yourself I suggest that you just walk a few hundred meters further east and you will have lots of small, secluded beaches to choose from!

Last night we also stayed at the beach to watch the sunset, and it was very special and idyllic to sit there in the sand by the water's edge and just watch the sky turn yellow, pink and then red before the sun disappeared. If you ever go to Barbados you should definitely try to catch a sunset outside the city because there's a whole different world.

We also went to Bridgetown a couple of days ago, but as I expected the shopping was not really much to talk about. There was an overflow of tourists, mostly asian, and tacky souvenirshops and bikini- and sunglassstores and so on. We spent most of our time in Bridgetown looking, but of course we did some shopping too.

To days ago, we went to this fabulous cute little restaurant by the east coast called "Naniki" which means 'spirited' or 'ful of life' in Awarak Indian. It's a small and cozy place, we got tipped by some friends of my mom who went to Barbados last year. The food was delicious, we had grilled seafood caribean style, and while we sat there we watched the skyp turn pink as the sun fell down into the Atlantic ocean.

Tomorrow's Rihanna concertday, and we almost can't sit still cause we're all so exited. Tell you all about it in a few days, bye!

Raggie

 

On my way to Barbados

We have a couple of hours until we have to catch our next plane, so right now I'm blogging from Starbucks at Gatwick Airport outside London. It's only 6 hours since we left Trondheim and I'm already getting sick and tired of my little sister, can't wait until we arrive at Barbados!! It's 5 hours travel back in time, so I think we will arrive there somewhere around 10.30. The beach is right outside the hotel door, so I know where I'm going  to spend the next couple of days at. The main reason we chose to travel to Barbados this week was first of all because we have tickets to a concert with a great, world famous artist who was actually born there. Can you guess who it is? Think about it until next time I blog then, promise to get an award or something(you owe me at least one comment).

This is a picture I found of the hotel we're staying at. Now I'm looking at the pictures I almost can't wait until we arrive there and I finally can jump in the pool, ayeah!! The hotel is approximately 6 miles from the capital Bridgetown, but I think we'll be spending much more time on the beach than out shopping. There are only 800 000 people living on Barbados in total anyways, so I guess the shopping areas around here aren't the best.
Well, we've got a plane to catch i 45 minutes so
C YA!

xoxo Raggie

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