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| Trinidad & Tobago 50th Independence Day Celebrations 2012. |
Back to Trinidad and the 50th Independence Celebration. It was a fantastic free show at one of the Cricket grounds, everyone got a free commemoration mug. The floor show was similar to the Olympic Opening Ceremony, with flamboyant costumes and dance. An appearance by the Prime Minister! who waved a small flag around. Afterwards fireworks, and then people began to leave thinking it was over- but the compare called them back and said the evening was just beginning he had top bands lined up and it was due to go on 'til 3 in the morning. They certainly know how to have a great party here. We left about 11.30 thoroughly worn out.
The 50th has had a knock on effect with shops giving away items some useful and some edible all in the spirit of advertising I think.
We have just had a visit from a guy called Michael who heard Malcolm on the net , he came over to see us and 'Piano' he had sung with Yan EVERY Sunday in Italy when they were there! They now have a house at the top of the hill here in Trinidad. He had skyped Ghislaine to ask her before he came how sweet eh ?
Time so far has been thwarted by no sim card for the phone for over a week. Now that we have one the jobs are flying along. As I write it is Tuesday today so I'm off shopping for the next week, but thank goodness we have the halogen hobs because the gas cooker is not working at the moment. Malcolm is on to it so I hope it is solved soon- you know how I like roast spuds!
The life raft has just gone in for it's first service check, we went to view it while it was open.
.....and the new 'tent' (or Bimini) ,spray hood etc had been looked at with a view to cleaning and nothing works 'Carlos ' the man of the moment says we ought to get out money back he has never seem such a mould infected fabric! watch this space for more.
Back from shopping, free coffee at Malibar meats how's that for friendly shopping?
The gas man cometh and taketh away the parts so no oven ‘til he returns, and the woodworker will give us his estimate tomorrow with a date that he can do the work.
The pool was warm today (35C) but I only had 1/2 hour!!
Well I have been remiss in writing our blog. Apologies to our avid readers but if you were here you would understand that life rolls on in the Caribbean fashion. I need a really good excuse not to just ‘Lime’ all day!
The gas solenoid is mended and we are back to Roasts on a Sunday evening yipee.
The Yanmar engine has been serviced as has the Westerbeke generator. We still haven't tracked down the loss of coolant but it is looking more and more as though it may be vapour escaping from the filler cap so that should be easy to rectify! Can you imagine the mess aboard with junk from the spaces around said engines, plus all the tools etc. the cockpit was a junk store too with umpteen cans of oil and spare parts. On top of all that we are having some of the headlinings replaced
The good news is that a local seamistress called Debbie is presently copying swimsuits and bikinis for a group of us so we will be very chic around the pool at sundowners time!
More down to earth was a shopping trip to Badwansinghs, a hardware store where we bought a new gas bottle amongst other things.
Last night we went to TTSA , The sailing club just down the road and had 'Hog Roast' which was pretty yummy - if two hours later than billed. Never mind we caught up with old friends and made some new ones, I forgot the camera so I'll let you see them next time.
