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