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  • Latille Falls, St. Lucia

    Latille Falls, St. Lucia

    St. Lucia is full of natural beauty, so it’s pretty tough to choose which waterfalls and scenic places to fill your time with when you’re there, seeing as you probably can’t visit them all. I chose Latille Falls as the first place to visit, as it seemed like it might…

  • Loading Buses in Jamaica

    Loading Buses in Jamaica

    One of the frequently used types of public transport in Jamaica is the coaster bus, basically a minibus. They’re privately owned (as opposed to the big yellow government buses) and there are set routes that they take e.g. Kingston – Port Antonio, stopping on the way to pick up more…

  • Bowden Hill, Jamaica

    Bowden Hill, Jamaica

    I’ve been in Kingston for a week now and I was starting to miss the countryside, so I decided to search for some local people on the Couchsurfing app (a site/app to meet local people who like to host travelers or show them around their city) who might be able…

  • Coronation Market, Kingston

    Coronation Market, Kingston

    On my second day in Jamaica, I wanted to go and explore a random area so I took a bus to Downtown Kingston with a girl and a boy from the hostel I’m staying at in the centre of Kingston. People had said it’s a kind of hectic/dangerous place and…

  • Stick Fighting in Trinidad

    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…

  • Selling at Princes Town Market

    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,…

  • 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…

  • How To Do Crop Over (Carnival in Barbados)

    Crop Over was the main reason I went to Barbados – I love carnivals and wanted to experience one in the Caribbean. The Crop Over celebrations last for months, but the main parts are probably Foreday Morning (jouvert) and Kadooment Day (the carnival procession day). The fetes (parties/concerts) and Soca…

  • Barbados: Public Transport and Taxis

    When you’re an adventurous traveller, it’s a given that you’re going to take public transport, and maybe some taxis, in the country you’re exploring. Thankfully, public transport in Barbados is pretty simple. Here’s how it works: There are no trains. Buses are the only form of public transport. There are three…

  • Sex on stage in Jamaica!!

    I made a couple of Jamaican friends while I was there, and I had nothing to do one evening so I went to the bar where one of these friends, Jody, works, also in the mountains near Ochi. Her bar is really small so it often closes early, like midnight.…