It Sometimes Gets A Wee Bit Boring In Paradise!
Last night was one of those nights when I felt a little bit bored and wanted something different to do. As much as I like living in Barbados, it sometimes gets a little bit limited as to what there is to do. But such is the joys of living in paradise I suppose; you can’t have your cake and eat it as the saying goes!
Anybody that is originally from Barbados and has left the island to live and work in foreign places such as the USA, UK, Canada etc will probably understand what I’m saying more so than any Bajans that have never left the shores of Barbados or the Caribbean.
As beautiful a paradise as Barbados is, I feel it does lack a bit if you want do something different once the sun has set, other than eat out, go to a bar or party. I suppose I could go and see a movie, but the choice is limited to the two different movies that are showing at any given time, and quite frankly Hellboy and The Incredible Hulk didn’t appeal to me last night.
Maybe as I spend longer living in Barbados I will discover new things to do and places to go, when I start to get a wee bit bored at night. It also takes a bit of getting use to how early it starts to get dark in Barbados, back home in the North East of Scotland at this time of the year it wouldn’t start to get dark until about 10 pm. I have seen myself rollerblading along the Aberdeen Boardwalk, which stretches for I guess about 2 miles along our beachfront at 10pm at night, and then I would head along to one of the multiplex cinemas and choose from 7 different movies.
So last night me and the family sought solace in junk food, I phoned up KFC about 8pm and was told they stopped home deliveries at 7pm, I thought the assistant was having a laugh with me, but alas they were very serious. I must add that KFC in Barbados tastes so much better than the rubbish that they sell us back home in Scotland.
What could we do, but jump in the car and head down to the KFC at Oistins and get it our selves. When we got there I couldn’t resist but heading across the road to Oistins Fish Fry for some of the best fishcakes that you will ever taste.
Back home I had a couple of bottles of Banks Beer chilling in the freezer waiting for me, to wash down the food with. The fishcakes and KFC were as delicious as ever.
I ended up sitting on my porch drinking an ice-cold bottle of Banks Beer playing Tetris on my mobile phone. Now I haven’t played Tetris since I was in primary school and that was a long time ago. I suppose my feeling of being bored soon disappeared, because before long it was 12pm.
I would say being bored in paradise isn’t so bad after all, I just have to let my body, mind and soul get use to doing different things, I just have to find new ways to relax. For the record my best score at Tetris was 9450.
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