Sights of Barbados

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 ...

Even the local monkeys are laid back in Barbados where Anne and I just enjoyed two and a half weeks courtesy Bishop Wilfred and Ina Wood. Highlight was the Barbados Wildlife Reserve where only snakes were caged and the monkeys were particularly entertaining.  A ‘laid back’ image from Barbados I loved was this 1936 Gentleman’s Chair from St Nicholas Abbey Plantation House. It features adjustable tables, book holder, reading lamp, back and foot rests. Should the gentleman’s snoring disturb others the chair could be wheeled elsewhere for the duration of his nap! Barbados has many hidden treasures. The deer are scarce so very hidden, indeed the Barbados Wildlife Reserve keeps them going. This shy specimen lent its head to my phone when Anne and I visited the Reserve. We hired a car to get there but it was worth the expense Actor Benedict Cumberbatch’s forbears ran St Nicholas Plantation, Barbados which still makes rum separating heads, heart and tails. The ‘heads’ b...