Mango Fruit Shake, Barbados Style
It’s another real hot day in Barbados and all this heat gives me a raging thirst as soon as I wake up in the morning. In order to deal with my early morning thirst, I always like to start the day off with a delicious cold glass of fruit juice made by my own fair hands.
Living in Barbados is fantastic because all I have to do is walk into my garden and I have some trees with delicious local fruits on them. I have a mango tree, coconut tree and guavas.
So I suppose this delicious mango fruit shake recipe that I’m going to share with you, came about only because they were the fruits that I had available to me in my garden in Barbados.
Ingredients for Mango Fruit Shake Barbados Style:
1 cup chopped mango
½ cup chopped coconut Jelly
½ cup chopped guava
½ cup of 100% pure orange juice
½ a cup of natural yogurt
1-teaspoon angostura bitters
1 teaspoon of brown sugar (optional)
I cup of ice
Instructions:
Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend for 2-3 minutes or so until smooth.
This will give you about 4 large glasses of delicious fruit juice.
Not only does my mango fruit shake taste absolutely delicious, it is extremely healthy for you, it is full of vitamins and fibre.
Nothing beats starting the day off with a large glass of healthy fruits blended together, it is a great way to give your energy levels a boost and get your day off to a great start.
My First Drive In Movie Experience, Courtesy of Barbados
Drive In movies were something I use to see cropping up form time to time in bad American movies. I had never previously been to a drive-in movie theatre before or even had the opportunity to watch a movie at one before. Last night July 29th of July in Barbados I was to experience my first ever drive in movie when I watched Batman - The Dark Night.
The movie was due to start at 6.45pm and just as we were preparing to leave, the heavens opened and it started lashing down. A friend had told me, that if the rain was real heavy and prolonged that the movie would be cancelled. Fortunately the rain went off as quickly as it went on, and it was a normal warm evening again in Barbados.
The Globe drive in theatre is located in the Adams Castle area in Christ Church and was only 10 minutes drive from my house, which makes it nice and handy for us.
I wasn’t too sure what to expect from my first ever, drive-in movie experience. As I drove up the road leading into the Globe, I must admit I felt like a wee excited kid. The theatre are itself was as big as I was anticipating and the screen was huge. We found a near perfect viewing position directly in the centre of the screen, and tuned our car radio into the correct frequency so we could listen to the movie.
For me a trip to the movies isn’t just about turning up and watching the movie and then heading home, I see it as being a fun and enjoyable night out. Watching a movie just wouldn’t be the same without getting some supplies to eat as it plays. We headed over to the concession area and the choice of food and drinks was good. I personally bought some, fishcakes, large french fries, popcorn, large cup of Mauby and a nice surprise was that they also sold beer. I of course had a couple of wee cans of cold Heineken, which went down a real treat. It sure wasn’t this good watching a movie back home in Aberdeen.
The drive in movie experience for me is certainly a unique night out, I would personally say it is a great way to watch a movie. The whole ambiance of watching a movie in an open-air theatre, with the warm air and the starry sky was a fantastic experience. I will most certainly be back again the in the near future, such as when they show The X-Files, I Want To Believe.
I suppose I probably should say a little bit about the movie, I had read all the hype prior to Batman - The Dark Night and was expecting it to be a great movie, I would personally say it was a fairly good movie, but it wouldn’t say it was a great movie. Is it the best Batman movie ever, I don’t think so, was Heath Ledgers performance as the Joker, the best ever portrayal of a baddie in a Batman movie, I don’t think so.
My favourite quote from the movie just has to be this one by said by Alfred Pennyworth speaking to Bruce Wayne.
Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?
Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
A clip from Batman - The Dark Night
How To Build a House In Barbados, The Stress and Worry Free Way!
Building a house is one of the most stressful tasks that anybody can ever undertake, and building a house in a foreign country will take your stress levels to a whole different stratosphere.
Barbados may be a paradise like Caribbean Island and as a result people often allow the feel good factor of being on the Island, cloud their vision when it comes to building a property. It is strongly recommended that you do not allow your heart to rule your head when it comes to making decisions regarding the building of your new home.
The building trade in Barbados, is much like it is in every other country in the world, you will find great builders, bad builders, people claiming to be builders who haven’t got a clue, and worst of all down right rip off merchants.
The beautiful Island of Barbados is full of stories of people from all over the world being ripped off by unscrupulous builders. I personally know of people that have had to spend tens of thousands of dollars to sort out shoddy building work, those were the lucky ones. The unlucky ones are those that have had houses built that are unsafe to live in, and believe it or not it gets even worse! I know of someone in England that paid over $250,000 and all she got was the foundations, when she was expecting a fully built house. They had sent her various pictures throughout the supposed building of the house to reassure her things were moving along smoothly. It was of course not her house in the pictures; she had paid for someone else to have a nice house built.
For those of you that are looking to build a property in Barbados, it is imperative that you have a good architect, trustworthy lawyer, as well as having a top quality building team and project manager. It really is as simple as that, if you want to have a house built to the standard that you expect and not get ripped off by the many sharks that are waiting to steal your hard earned money!
If you are looking to find a plot of land to buy, build a house, continue a previous building project or even a renovation project, we at Awaken Paradise Property Consultants can make it happen for you in a stress free and worry way.
We at Awaken Paradise offer a safe, reliable and very effective service for those that are seeking to build a new house or finish an existing house in the beautiful Caribbean Island of Barbados. Through us you can be assured that your best interests are being taken care of by a professional, honest and hard working team. You can visit our web site at awakenparadisepropertyconsultants.com.
Dream the Dream, Then All You Have To Do Is Believe, Achieve, Succeed!
Can success in life really be as simple as my title suggests, I haven’t personally reached the stage in my life where I can lay my beach towel down on crane beach in Barbados and lie back and relax knowing that I have succeeded with my life. I’m at the stage where I’m dreaming the dream and I sure as hell believe that I’m going to succeed. I suppose at the present time, I’m stuck at the achieving part of the great plan to become successful. It has taken me decades of working in a variety of jobs, to come to the conclusion that being a slave to a wage isn’t what I want my life to be about.
Being told what I have to do, or when I can have my lunch break, or when I can or can’t have my holidays, or how much of a pay rise I deserve, is not how I want to live my life anymore. That was the reason I quit my job and decided it was time to fend for myself. The time had come for me to be in control of my own destiny.
I had been dreaming the dream for a number of years, of working for myself and quitting the rate race in the UK and heading to the sun, but I was lacking the spark or the courage to do something about it. Having a secure job with a reasonable wage, 6 weeks holidays a year and a good pension, was a big chain around my neck. As much as I hated working for the boss man, I couldn’t free myself.
But I started to open up my mind and dared to dream the dream, there were those, and still are those people, that will tell me that dreams are fantasy and will never come true. That’s why the dreams of those people can never come true, they don’t believe in the dream.
It really is as simple as the heading of this article states, but you also have to put a lot of commitment, effort and time, into making the dream become a reality. Anyone can do it, you can control your own destiny, and it’s up to ourselves which path we choose to go down.
I put together a game plan as to how I was going to move forward with my life and achieve the things, which I desired. So here I am in Barbados living a much more rewarding and fulfilling life. I may not be earning anywhere near the money I was making back home in the UK, but I’m so much happier working with my family in building up a business through hard work, integrity and honesty.
My advise to anybody out there that hates their job, hates the boss or has had enough of the rat race, or for whatever reason they are unhappy in life. Do something about it; don’t be like all those whingers around you, that are happy and content to moan about how much they hate life, rather than put the same effort into doing something constructive to change things.
You have to begin by dreaming the dream.