Second Day St. Kitts - mostly about Jimmy

 

 

We started the day with a walk on the beach. We walked for 1½ hours. Clear blue skies, turquoise water and rather windy. The sand has many different colors from almost white to black (from the volcano). After the walk we went to the beach to hang out under one of the little huts.

 

Then Jimmy arrived. On the shoulder of a Rasta man sat this adorable little monkey called Jimmy. He was wearing a diaper and I immediately fell for him! I have wanted a monkey since I was a little kid and here I could hold Jimmy and take pictures for 5 bucks! At first he just wanted to play and pretended to pinch and bite me (it was easy for him with my loose old skin!). Then I could give him a cookie and he was happy hanging out with me. Gunilla took lots of pictures and then I realized I had a banana in my bag. I gave it to Jimmy and he was so happy. Sat on my shoulder, peeled the banana and ate it. I was over the moon! So now I am in love with Jimmy. Hoping he will come by another day as well.

We had lunch at the same restaurant as yesterday. But somehow they lost our order and after an hour we were not so happy. They apologized and asked if we wanted to have something to munch on while they made our lunches and we said we wanted nachos at no cost, which we got. Yum. Shortly the food arrived but now our beers were warm so we asked for new cold beers (at no cost) which we also got.

Back to the beach chairs. The wind is so strong that it feels cold. Every now and then I had to go out in the sun to warm up :-) We decided to stay in tonight because we were both quite tired. I did not take any pictures so will only show you more of my darling Jimmy!

Travelling and First Day at St.Kitts

I was picked up at 4 am to catch a 5.30 am flight to Miami. It was an uneventful flight, I slept a little as I had opted not to got to bed Sunday night as it would be such a short sleep. As I was waiting for the train to go to the gate for the St.Kitts plane, Gunilla got off the train going in the opposite direction. One minute later and we would have missed each other! So - pretty good timing. So we headed to Starbucks (of course!) for breakfast.

The plane to St.Kitts was full and the flight was fairly smooth. Immigration took quite some time. The papers you had to fill out were very extensive and the island people were not very fast, as is customary in the tropics.

We took a taxi to Marriott and the driver was trying to be a guide and telling us about what we were passing. Neither me nor Gunilla understood a word of what he said, although it was supposed to be English! Upon arrival at the hotel we were welcomed with fruit punch or ice cold beer. We opted for the beer :)


We are at the tiny red dots below the palm on the right

We checked in and went to the room to unpack. The room had a balcony and was supposed to be an "upgrade". However, the balcony was right by the airconditioning units and that was a horrible view as well as noisy. Anyway we decide to explore a bit and we set out to find a store to buy some food to stock our refrigerator with breakfast stuff.

We found the store and stopped for dinner at a nice little restaurant. Back at the room we started to be upset a our room and come morning, we decided to complain and insisted on getting a different room. We didn't care about a balcony as the one we had we would never use due to the noise and view. After a little while, they realized that we would not give up and they "found" a room in one of the garden houses with view over one of the pools (there are 3 pools here).
We decided to explore our surroundings a bit and look for a place to have lunch. We found this great weather station. Quite funny, I think. We found a great restaurant by the beach and had some lunch. There is always a breeze by the beach and we decided that it was really too hot to sit by the pool as the breeze doesn't reach there.

We went back to the room to change to go to the beach, but on our way back we found several small shops inside the hotel and spent an hour shopping :)
We went down to the beach that has a lot of little cabanas so you can have both sun and shade all day long. We stayed at the beach for a couple of hours and then went back to change and go to dinner. Tonight they had all you can eat Northern Italian buffet and everything was made in front of your eyes. You could pick whatever you wanted and could choose between lots of different sea food, chicken, meat sauce or Alfredo cream sauce, veggies and different pastas. It was delicious and we both ate too much. Now back at the room and I have finally started my blog.
We have to pay for internet which really sucks! $104 for the 12 days we are here! Can you imagine!!?? But it is impossible for me not to have access to the internet. I am going to complain to Marriott. Because this is really robbery!!

Time to travel again!

Early on Monday morning I will be leaving for St.Kitts and Nevis and will report daily about our adventures! We will be staying at the Marriott of course!