… then every evening ended with Nigel. This towering man was our company every evening at the resort bar – where we caught up with our night caps and sometimes dinner too!! Last evening, we got to know about his life story. It is always a humbling experience getting to know the real people. Everybody has a story I can learn so much from…
The whole place is filled up with small boards of very funny sayings – mostly to do with alcohol. You can spend thirty minutes just going around the whole place and reading up all the boards. If you ever come to this part of the world, do visit this place. Here are some examples:
“I seriously need a speed bump between by brain and my mouth”
“Exercise makes you look better naked. So does tequila. Your choice.”
“Potatoes make fries, chips and vodka. Seems like the other vegetables are not even trying”
and so on…
Took Ted’s advice and decided to go check up Spanish Wells. Well, that is the city. The island in St. George’s Cay. A few centuries back, the Spanish, on their way back to Europe used to stop in this island to fill up their boats with potable water. (They had dug up wells in the island for that purpose). Thus the name of the city.
Sharmila and I went there with higher ambition. She was trying to see if she could buy some local spicy sauces.
(BTW, we did not get any there)
But stay here for how nice the people are. Every single person in this island is very friendly. You may remember Richard, Shirley and Shelly from previous posts. On Sunday, the cigar-toting Edgar at the Liquor store and Alicia from the grocery store helped me fix a problem. (I was potentially running low on cash and both the ATMs in the island were not working!!).
In the resort itself, the people are even nicer, if that is even possible. Florence – the lady from Haiti who has been cleaning our room has been super nice. She told us her story from Haiti.
Nothing can start your day as well as a good breakfast by the turquoise blue waters and great conversations with Torez and Trisha. Both of them have young kids – almost a year and a half old. In fact, I got to meet Torez’s daughter – who was super friendly – in keeping with the island ethos, I guess. She saw me and immediately gave me a fist bump!!
“So, we come here for vacation. You live here. Where do you go for vacation?”
“Florida!”
“Really? What is there that you do not have here?”
“Tall buildings!” said Torez
“Tall buildings?”
“Yes, I can look up. Here you cannot look up!”
“That is funny”
Trisha added – “You come here to see what you do not have. We go there to see what we do not have!”
Sounds about fair!!
