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Short Story Barbados
Barbados – the Caribbean dream par excellence!
There where friendliness, helpfulness and a smile belong to the most normal virtues of the people.
No matter when you visit the pearl of the Caribbean it is always warm here but still bearable. Here the sun is shining 3000 hours a year. The average temperature of 27 °C is varying of max 3 ° C. The main season is, as on all Caribbean islands, the winter.
The people on Barbados are called „Bajans“, they speak English, love Cricket and their afternoon tea. Out of the airplane, normally British Airways via London, Barbados looks like an enormous pear. About 34 km long and 23 km wide the island is located east of the Antilles arc.
The island is unique with a mix of English tradition and Caribbean lifestyle. With a certain slight the island is said to be „very British“. This is supposed to describe the conservative way of living of the people but is just for us European tourists more than congenial. Because of two advantages: a working constitutional state with a strict jurisdiction and the economy including all public utilities as for example the bus system, are functioning.
Tourists on Barbados will trouble-free confront European prices for rental cars. Who travels with a simple budget can take the minibus for just 1 €. This works at every corner and the never ending Reggae music on the bus is also for free.
Barbados is a relatively flat island that offers dreamlike Caribbean beaches in the west and a rough Atlantic coast with a stormy sea in the east. Both possess their peculiar charm. While one can explore uncountable white sandy beaches at the west- and southwest coast, the rough east coast offers solitude and pictorial bays where high waves invite for surfing.
No matter, whether you take the bus or the rental car to go all across the island you will always spot great natural spectacles which, depending on the time of the day, will cause most different sentiments. You will be fascinated by the sandy beaches in the south with its palm trees but also as a contrast the tropical fertility of the mountainous country in the north and the never ending width of the plains with sugarcane.
There is indeed no island in the Caribbean that could compete with the nightlife on Barbados. Here you find the best rum of the world and the uncountable rum shops fill with people from 2 pm on. Much ado is going on at the fish market in Oistins every day. In a lot of clubs the party goes on until late at night. The most hip locations are the Harbour Lights and the Ship Inn in St. Lawrence Gap. But careful, the hottest Party are at a different location every day that is known by every Bajan.
The wide-ranging sport and free time possibilities of Barbados offer something for everyone. It doesn’t matter whether mountain biking, tennis, horseback riding, horse racing, body boarding, squash, wind- and kitesurfing, surfing, sailing, sea fishing up to golf on first-class golf courses. Dive through the underwater world of the island with coral reefs and a lot of colourful shining fishes.
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