Category: Trinidad 2015-16
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Trini Street Food
There are a lot of things I love about Trinidad, but the street food is definitely up there in the Top Three. It’s a vegan heaven AND it’s quite affordable compared to some other countries. The most well known one is doubles. These cost $5TT (the equivalent of 50p in…
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Blue Devils in Trinidad
Blue Devils are one of the traditional characters of Trinidad Carnival, dating back hundreds of years. Every year in Paramin, a mountainous area about half an hour from Port of Spain, they come out on Carnival Monday (and possibly some other days, I’m not sure), so I decided to go…
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My Trinidad Carnival Experience
Pretty much all the Caribbean people I’ve spoken to in London have said that Trinidad Carnival is something that every carnival fan has to experience, and this year that’s what I finally did. I found a host on Couchsurfing and stayed with him for a week in San Juan, an…
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Stick Fighting in Trinidad
Since I arrived in Trinidad in December, I’d been seeing posters up in public advertising ‘stick fighting’, and I finally experienced it for myself the other day. As the name suggests, it’s a kind of sport/tradition where people hit each other with sticks. Its origins are said to date back…
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Road Trip to Toco
I’ve been in Moruga, Trinidad, for over a month now, but until last weekend I hadn’t really explored other areas of the island. Thankfully, the family I’m staying with are always down for an adventure, and Giselle (my ‘Trini sister’, daughter of the farm owner) decided to plan a road…
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Selling at Princes Town Market
The family who own the farm I’m staying at make some of their money by selling produce at their little roadside shop outside their house, and by selling produce at the market at the nearest town called Princes Town. People sell at Princes Town on various days of the week,…
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Christmas in Trinidad
Since I arrived in Trinidad, people were telling me how much fun Christmas would be, and that I chose a good time of year to come. They explained to me that around Christmas time, people do something called ‘parang’ which means to go from house to house eating and drinking…
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Marac Beach
Marac is the next village up from where I’m staying (La Lune, Moruga), and you can get there in about 10 minutes in a taxi which costs $4TT (40p in English money). Similarly to the beach at La Lune, the sea in Marac is dirty when it rains a lot,…
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Natural Snacking in Trinidad
Before I came to Trinidad, I was trying to be vegan but couldn’t resist eating cheese, so I always failed, but since I’ve been here I’ve been vegan the whole time. Meals at the farm I’m staying at are made from vegetables from the garden with rice, and snacks are…
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La Lune Beach, Moruga
The village I’m living in in Trinidad is called La Lune, and it has one beach which stretches across quite a long way, so there are various ways you can walk down onto it (mainly cutting through between two houses). It’s surrounded by palm trees and for some reason there…
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WWOOFing in Trinidad
For those of you who don’t know, WWOOF stands for Willing Workers On Organic Farms, and it’s one of the websites I use to look for places to stay abroad where you work in exchange for accommodation and food. I ended up here (in the south of Trinidad) because I…
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