Independence Day In Barbados
Today is what is known as Independence Day in Barbados, the 30th of November 1966 was the day in history when this Caribbean Island ceased to be a British Colony. The first British settlement in Barbados happened way back in 1627 and it took 339 years before they gave up ultimate control.
As a Scotsman living in Barbados I can see why they were so reluctant to give this island up. I suppose it is much like my country Scotland and why the British Government is fighting tooth and nail to keep the United Kingdom together. Like Barbados our day will eventually come and we will be celebrating our Scottish Independence.
Living in Barbados and seeing the immense pride that the citizens feel towards Barbados Independence Day, should provide every Scotsman, woman and child with believe and hope that our day will come soon. Independence in Barbados was achieved without blood shed and fighting, it was achieved through diplomacy and that is an indication of the type of people that live on this extremely beautiful Caribbean Island.
Yellow Bird Is Going to Taste Delicious
It is Independence Day in Barbados on Sunday so that is a perfect reason to have a few cocktails along with a few bottles of Banks Beer this evening. I intend on starting off with a few Pina Coladas and then move on to a few dozen or so Yellow Birds.
Thankfully I have friends that travel to Barbados on a regular basis and they as guests like to bring me a few duty free bottles of spirits as they know of my reputation as a cocktail connoisseur, because if they never my drinks cabinet would be empty apart from local rum. The cost of non Caribbean Liquor in Barbados is outrageous.
Yellow Bird Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients:
1.5 - Shots White Rum
0.25 – Shots Galliano
0.5 – Shots De Kuyper Crème De Bananes
0.25 – Shots De Kuper Apricot Brandy
2 – Shots Shots Pineapple Juice
1 – Teaspoon Castor Sugar
0.5 – Shot Lime Juice
Instructions:
Pour all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker, along with some ice cubes and mix for 1 minute and then serve in a glass, I personally use a Martini Glass and garnish with a slice of lemon. Then drink them till your heart is content and celebrate the 30th of November 1966 when Barbados freed themselves from the shackles of the United Kingdom.
Hopefully one of these days just like the Barbadians, I as a Scotsman will know the great pride and joy that is being felt all over the island, when my country Scotland eventually frees itself from the shackles of the United Kingdom and eventually gains it’s own independence.
Erasing Those Painful Memories of Those Hairy Chimpanzees like Girls!
After the nightmare experience yesterday of seeing those chimpanzees, sorry I meant to say hairy girls at Carlisle Bay, Hairy Woman At Carlisle Bay, Ban Them All!, today I would like to completely erase that horrible vision from my mind. It wasn’t a pretty sight!
Hairy girls take a close look of the picture at the top of this article of one of Barbados’s very own the talented and internationally known Rihanna, she is obviously a girl that knows how to present herself in public at the beach. You don’t need to be rich and famous to take the hairs off your legs and armpits, you can do it hairy girls, you really can, you know you want too.
I would like to reassure all the many thousands of tourists that come to Barbados for the amazing and beautiful beaches that, thankfully yesterday’s occurrence doesn’t happen too often. Hopefully my campaign to outlaw hairy girls on the beaches of Barbados becomes a reality and it becomes law, which if not adhered to will lead to 30 days in a zoo, I meant to say prison!
Thankfully those painful memories of yesterday are gradually going away and I’m getting things back on track. I just heard my favourite song of the summer of 1997 that has filled my mind with good times, called, “Beautiful Girls”, which was performed by Sean Kingston. I remember the first time I heard that song I was relaxing on the balcony of the deluxe room I was staying in at Southern Palms watching the clear blue Caribbean Sea. The first time I heard it I knew it was going to be the massive worldwide hit that it became.
Even though “Beautiful Girls”, isn’t a song, which is the happiest subject matter, I.E it’s about a guy that is suicidal because he has been dumped by a beautiful girl, it still has a good beat to it and catchy tune. This song was getting played all the time when I was hear last summer and it has brought back memories of an amazing 4 weeks staying on the Gap, getting married, and having the time of my life.
Hairy Girls do the decent thing and run away and join the circus or something like that, but just make sure you stay away from the beaches of Barbados.
Hairy Woman At Carlisle Bay, Ban Them All!
I was chilling out and having breakfast at Carlisle Bay early this morning before I went to the post office in Bridgetown to collect some packages. I couldn’t believe what I was watching coming out of the water, at first glance I thought it was a couple of Chimpanzees. In fact I thought I was having some sort of weird nightmare.
Unfortunately I wasn’t dreaming it was actually two real hairy woman, they were both of European decent and had dark hair. Lets just say the horrible sight of their dark long hairy legs and the long hairs under their armpits and it got even worse you could see the hairs coming out of there noses, it was the worst sight I have ever witnessed at any beach in Barbados.
I wish I had never seen them, but they walked right past me right in my line of vision. Luckily I had just finished my breakfast or I wouldn’t have been able to eat it.
I think David Thomson PM needs to start taking his job more seriously and ban woman like that from all beaches in Barbados. Lets get some signs erected at all popular beaches, “ALL HAIRY WOMAN BANNED”. It needs to be done before these hairy ugly and smelly women start scaring off the tourists. I swear there were young children running for there life’s, when they saw them hairy woman walking out of the beautiful clear blue Caribbean Sea.
It is the 21st century, we are living in a civilised society, there are places for woman like that and they are called zoos and circuses. When hairy woman go out they should cover up their hairy body parts from the public.
Before all you hairy woman get on your high horse and all you crazy wackjobs that find hairy woman appealing, I personally groom myself on a regular basis, because I like to look and feel good. I shave daily and always apply a wee drop of Hugo Boss so that I smell sweet, I trim my eyebrows on a regular basis, I keep the hair on my head neat and tidy, I shave unsightly hair from my back and trim the chest hairs when they get too long. It takes a bit of time and effort but the rewards are worth it, I feel good and I have a fantastically good-looking wife.
Hairy woman don’t be so lazy and sort yourselves out, you are a disgrace to 21st century woman. All it takes is a bit of time and effort and you will be looking and feeling a lot better. Unless you haven’t noticed we are not living in the stone age era anymore! JUST DO IT!
The Inspiration of Travel
I have found a truly inspirational quote, which I feel that people who love to travel will appreciate, for we understand the importance of travel and how we as human beings can benefit from experiencing life in different countries.
I feel that there are too many people out there that are for some reason afraid to leave the comfort zone that they have lived in for all of their life’s. They haven’t got the will power or desire to life their life’s to the max, to experience new people, new places, new experiences, new adventures.
I the Wandering Scotsman know from personal experience the born again feeling that you get from packing up your bags and heading off to somewhere new in search of a new beginning in the story of life.
“There is no happiness for him who does not travel. Therefore, wander. The fortune of him who is sitting sits, it rises when he rises, it sleeps when he sleeps, it moves when he moves. Therefore , wander !”
— The Rig Veda – 800 – 600 BC —
A Nice Wee Spot For My Lunch
I had a busy morning today and needed to chill out for an hour, so I decided to have lunch at the beach. After yesterday’s crap lunch in Bridgetown at the Bump and Wine Cafe, I decided to take no chances and grabbed a delicious fully loaded sub way type sandwich from the supermarket, for only 7.99BDS and believe me it tasted absolutely delicious and a bottle of Mountain Dew cherry flavour, which also tasted delicious, I just wish I bought two bottles of the stuff.
It doesn’t really matter where I am in Barbados, if I suddenly decide I want to have lunch at a fantastic beach, I’m always only a short drive away. I truly love that about Barbados, and for me it is one of the best perks about living on this island.
Today it was Carlisle Bay and tomorrow who knows where it will be, but it will somewhere as equally as pretty and inviting. If only I had taken a pair of shorts and towel with me I could have had a badly needed dip in the sea. I think from now on I will keep a pair of swimming shorts and a towel in the boot of my car for days like today.
Caught In a Tourist Trap In Bridgetown
It doesn’t matter what country I’m in, I have always tried to avoid tourist traps like the plague, and yesterday I well and truly had the misfortune to visit one in Bridgetown in Barbados.
I had been in Bridgetown on Business and it was time to take things easy and have a few cold beers and have something to eat. I had passed by a place called Bump and Wine Café numerous times, but had never been in it. It is a family ran business that is named after a song that a local Soca star had in the 80’s, he also owns the place.
What can I say about Bump and Wine, well lets start with the good things, it has a fantastic outdoor balcony area with a good view of some fancy boats and the centre of Bridgetown, the pretty girls working in the place were a bonus, the décor of the place was good. All in all Bump and Wine Café looked like a good place to have a drink and something eat.
Well I was gravely mistaken, like tourist traps all over the world they served the most bland and second-rate food imaginable and then charged you like you were eating in a quality restaurant. I have eaten better food at a wooden Shack in Barbados, than I have at Bump and Wine. That is kinda sad. I have to laugh at the menu that claimed the Jerk Chicken was real hot; there was nothing hot about it. It gets worse, even the lager was way overpriced, listen to this it was $9.00BDS for a bottle of Carib Lagar. Now I wouldn’t have minded paying the money if it was ice cold, but they couldn’t even manage that.
Now don’t get me wrong I don’t mind paying a bit over the odds for a meal and drinks in nice and comfortable surroundings, but please give me decent food to eat and ice cold beer. Unfortunately Bump and Wine Café gets it sadly wrong.
I guess I should have known that when I walked and all the customers were white tourists mainly from England, that the place was a grade A tourist trap, in fact the only local people in the place were serving there. They seriously need to get a decent chef in the place and start serving ice-cold beer. Bump and Wine Café Just Do It!
At Home By the Sea
I have lived fairly close to the Sea all of my life, before I moved to Barbados, my home city and place of birth was Aberdeen, which is in Scotland. Back home in Aberdeen I was never more than 30 minutes drive from the dark blue freezing cold and at times wild North Sea. The Atlantic Ocean was a wee bit further away, perhaps a 4.5 hour drive away.
Now that I’m living in Barbados I live about 5 minutes drive from the warm blue and ever so inviting waters of the Caribbean Sea and about 20 minutes drive from the cooler Atlantic Ocean.
As most people can imagine there is huge difference between the weather back home in Scotland and in Barbados. In Scotland most of my time at the beach was spent fully clothed watching the sea and walking along the miles upon miles of sands. In Barbados it is the opposite I usually have a pair of shorts on and am in the water relaxing, swimming, or boogie boarding.
I spent many a happy hour by the sands of the North Sea, whether it was walking along the Aberdeen Beach Promenade or walking along the sand dunes and miles of golden sands at Balmadie Beach. Many a fine hour of rest, relaxation and exercise were spent by the sea in Aberdeen. Some days the sun would be shinning and there would be a gentle breeze, other days it would be freezing cold with bitter a wind that would go right through you, if you never had the proper clothes on.
In Barbados I have also spent many a fine hour of rest, relaxation and exercise by the Sea. Nothing beats jumping in the car and heading down to the Caribbean Sea or over to the Atlantic Ocean and spending a few hours having fun and forgetting about real life. Usually the sun is shining bright when I go to the beach in Barbados, but on days when there is storm passing it is still an wondrous site sitting in the car watching it pass by.
I feel at home by the sea and cannot ever imagine myself living anywhere that isn’t close to a sea, I just couldn’t live in such a place. Spending time at the beach and by the sea is something that I will always look forward too.
In my time so far I have visited the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean and I have equally enjoyed them all and there unique beauty.
I Hope the Tropical Princess Tastes Good
It is the Weekend and I’m going to see the latest instalment of the James Bond franchise called “Quantum of Solace”, which by all accounts is meant to be pretty good. To get me into the mood for going to see one of my favourite movie characters of all time, I intend on having a few cocktails.
The Tropical Princess is real sweet cocktail that is almost as sweet as all those beautiful Bajans girls that you see all over the place in Barbados. A few of those and I mean cocktails; will have me in the party mood for watching Bond.
Tropical Princess Recipe:
Ingredients:
1 part White rum ·
1/2 part Crème de cacao (white)
1/2 part Passion fruit liqueur
1 Passion fruit juice
2 parts Pineapple juice
1 Pineapple slice
2 teaspoons Sugar syrup
Instructions:
Shake all ingredients, including the passion fruit juice (preferably fresh, seeds and all), over ice and strain into a glass. Garnish with a pineapple leaf and wedge on the rim and few passion fruit seeds floating on top.
There you have it the Tropical Princess a delicious tasting cocktail that will get you in the mood for an enjoyable night.
If the Tropical Princess isn’t your thing I have a few others that may well do the trick for you, Time To Chill Out and Take It Easy In Barbados and The Best Pina Colada Recipe In The World.
Hey Mr Chopper You Are An Icon
I was sitting in my car the other day waiting for the kid to finish school, when a guy came cycling past on an all time classic bike called The Raleigh Chopper. It was sure was a blast from the past for me, I remember having and loving my Chopper over 25 years ago back home in Scotland.
Here I was in Barbados wishing I could get a wee shot on that Chopper bike, maybe next time he comes past I will stop him and offer him 20 dollars or something for an hours hire of the bike. I can just imagine myself whizzing around Barbados on one of the most iconic bikes of all time.
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