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Sights of Barbados 2022

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Barbados We travel to friends on the island of Barbados  with sea, sand and palms sparkling in the sun. Life slows for a fortnight suiting thirty degrees heat with a centring of the day upon a bath in the sea. The people smile a lot greeting us on the street  and many speak first hand  of God as real to them. Their history is ugly. Britain held slaves here. Now the island is free and proud of that. With its warmth and light its beauty, its people  and their inspiration Barbados is second home. John Twisleton 18 November 2022 Friday is open night at Harry Bayley Observatory in Bridgetown, Barbados. Anne and I enjoyed a talk and debate on the recategorising of Pluto as a dwarf planet and joined a group of 15 or so to view the planets. COVID restrictions meant we couldn’t all look through the telescope eyepiece but viewed a projection on a screen. Here’s Saturn. Some sights of Barbados Wild Life Reserve where animals are friendly and tortoises unashamed! Bishop Wilfred said we really must