Bridgetown, Barbados

Thursday, February 20, 2014 Bridgetown, Barbados

The Crown Princess arrived in Barbados at 10:00 AM.

After a breakfast outside by the midship pool, we headed down the gangplank and walked past about a hundred taxicab drivers that wanted to take us on a mile ride into Bridgetown... we just smiled at them and enjoyed our walk in to town. A beautiful water view walk with tropical trees shading the path. It was a warm day if you stood in the sun, but in the shade with the gentle ocean breezes, it was very nice. The island of Barbados is very flat....nice for walking.

 

 

Just  a little snooze in this nice ocean breeze....Pleeeze!

Our walk took us into the center of town to find the old Parliament building that was getting ready to celebrate its 275 anniversary on February 28...Gosh, we are 8 days to early to help the Prince celebrate. What a unique stucture...castle like. England's prince is coming and they are buzzing around here to get things ship shape for the celebration.

                                                                       Parliament

                                                       Parliament looks like a castle!


We walked into the city park with a statue of Admiral Nelson... since we learned about him yesterday, we are finding that he really got around. Also spotted a World War I Commemorative Statue and the Arched Gate Entrance over the waterway of the chartered fishing vessels. A very nice area to stroll through and enjoy.

 

 

Admiral Nelson's Statue and Larry's new friend

We visited a local store that had 100% of everything ...so modern compared to what we visited in Antigua. We ate a spot of lunch on the waterfront while checking the sketchy internet and then wondered back toward the ship. Got a couple of phone calls made, emails sent, and worked on publishing the blog inside the lovely cruise terminal....with free wifi that was slooowwww but better than St. Thomas and Antigua.

Barbados is a highly developed community with lots of modern stores and industrialized waterfront area. Larry especially enjoyed the large seafood market wishing he could go fishing with these Barbadians who really caught some big ones.

 

 

Although we never made it to the rum factory, you should know that Barbados is "where de rum come from". Yes, rum was invented here and became the Caribbean traditional drink. We found out that the British Navy allocated 4 ounces daily to all its sailors for hundreds of years.

                                                                          WOW !!