Bridgetown Barbados in the beautiful Caribbean

One of the many places we’ve wanted to visit is the Caribbean, and it was an exciting time when we docked in Bridgetown Barbados one of the more important islands. The pop. is approx. 500,000 spread over the island 21 miles long by about 11 wide.

From our cabin we immediately recognised the cricket oval just a couple of hundred meters from our ship. We drove past it and it will only be a few weeks and we should be watching the cricket there on TV at home.

Virtuoso our travel agency conducted an excursion where we travelled up the West Coast of the Island where all the expensive hotels, golf clubs, and elaborate homes are located. It was so pretty, very flat but as we drove east across the island the topography changed into quite hilly areas affected by the prevailing winds, sugar and banana plantations and some large surf on the beaches.

Visited a church going back to the 1600’s which had a cemetery behind that was very interesting seeing the different headstones and tombs, there was even a sun dial showing the exact time of day.

We then drove back across the middle of the island’s farming areas to the highlight of the excursion, lunch at a place called Champers restaurant.

This is the restaurant from the beach. Our table was on the far right.

Prawn Salad with mango, yummo!!!!!!

Wow, this was located on the sea on a point overlooking a fantastic beach, with the day being almost perfect, the colour of the sea and the sandy beach made for picture perfect photos.

Spot the bar and beach umbrellas!!!!!

The meal was amazing, T chose a prawn salad, with grilled mahi mahi followed by a rum based cake. G, had spring rolls, thai chicken, and creamy coconut pie. There was plenty of drink to go with it. What a meal! What a day, What a lovely island to be recommended to all.
Tomorrow we'll be in St Lucia and then onto St Bart's.