Take Two Holiday with the Archers

Yet again I can only apologise to my poor mum and family who have not a clue where we are. It’s been over a month since I last updated and as usual all plans have changed. We are now working between Panama and Cartagena in possibly the coolest job in the world.

Well here goes, lots of backdating to do. The last week spent on holiday with the Archers (seems so long ago now) was great apart from the fact that Sym, Bev and poor Jenson took in turns being ill for a few days. We ended up calling the doctor out and they all has a chest infection and were put on antibiotics, but after a day they were drinking cocktails by the bar again. We hired a car for two days and did a tour of the island which was beautiful. The first day we drove through the rainforest and trekked through a nature reserve to get to the waterfalls. They were wicked and me Sym and Brandon climbed up to the top tier and hung about in the first bit. The waterfalls were so powerful you could not put your head under for very long without feeling like your back was going to break.



Sym and Bev bonding on the Kayak



Flukey shot by wmah of them falling off!!



We also took the car to Englishman bay (which was possibly the nicest beach in the world) where we went snorkelling. We went out for some good food and spent the last few days chilling by the pool and taking out the little catamaran boat that they hire from the hotel. It was my first time on a tiny sail boat, and I loved it!
Bye guys love you and miss you loads!!!!





Sym and I had planned to sail down to Trinidad next where we were going to stay for the rest of hurricane season and try and look for some work. I can’t express how much I was not looking forward to it. One reason because I knew how hard it would be to find work and secondanly the fact that the maid in Tobago told my sister in law Lisa to prey for us cos we were probably going to get murdered or raped if we went there!! NICE!!!
Apparently the homicide rate over the past few years has tripled and aside from Jamaica has the highest homicide and violent crime rate!
I know that when some people talk you should take things with a pinch of salt, as in every large city there is lots of crime, for example you want to go out to Bridgend where I am from on a Saturday night or Cardiff and that’s rough as anywhere, with people getting slaughtered and beefing each other up. Anyhow whenever anyone asked where we were going and we told them they would say, ‘stay well away from there’ so as you can imagine I was not entirely looking forward to it.