Reply to: The Natives are Revolting

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Work in Barbados: Barbados Welcome Stamp '-' Work Remotely In Barbados

As a younger man I would have jumped at the chance to live there. Think of those Bajan women.

[darmstadt]

Work in Barbados: Barbados Welcome Stamp '-' Work Remotely In Barbados

[Old Greg]

Quite happy with rum myself - as long as we've still got Jamaica* there's no need to panic just yet...

*Obviously I don't mean in an ownership sense, just as in a collective Commonwealth Realm sort of sense. A man needs a Mojito in these testing times, y'know...

FTFY

[WTFH]

What?? All inclusive? So you're talking about Varadero? FFS.

I went about 4 years ago for a friend's 50th birthday. Our itinerary was: Havana, Viñales, Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Camaguey, Santiago de Cuba, Baracoa, Havana. All in two weeks, rubbish roads, dodgy toilets, friendly casas, local food and Cristal beer.

I'd go back in a heartbeat.

What size bareboat were you on?

[Paddy]

What?? All inclusive? So you're talking about Varadero? FFS.

I went about 4 years ago for a friend's 50th birthday. Our itinerary was: Havana, Viñales, Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Camaguey, Santiago de Cuba, Baracoa, Havana. All in two weeks, rubbish roads, dodgy toilets, friendly casas, local food and Cristal beer.

I'd go back in a heartbeat.

Two centre with Havana, I also hired a car and travelled around and did the good deed of giving lifts to the locals. I found it to be one of the safest countries to visit.

[ladymuck]

Since you posed that I can't get my mind away from Cuba, all inclusive hotel, sitting a the pool bar, generous refills of Mojitos, and tapas, afternoon breeze, clear blue sea with so many fish I kept saying sorry to them when I was swimming and bumping into them.

What?? All inclusive? So you're talking about Varadero? FFS.

I went about 4 years ago for a friend's 50th birthday. Our itinerary was: Havana, Viñales, Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Camaguey, Santiago de Cuba, Baracoa, Havana. All in two weeks, rubbish roads, dodgy toilets, friendly casas, local food and Cristal beer.

I'd go back in a heartbeat.

[Paddy]

I loved Santiago de Cuba rum. Hard to get outside of Cuba. Deliciously dark and potent.

Since you posed that I can't get my mind away from Cuba, all inclusive hotel, sitting a the pool bar, generous refills of Mojitos, and tapas, afternoon breeze, clear blue sea with so many fish I kept saying sorry to them when I was swimming and bumping into them.

[WTFH]

I predict a few craft micro distilleries producing beet rum etc. soon in the UK. Seems to be the way things are going.

Brandy bay & Tor Bay rum sound plausible.
not sure Fishguard & Holyhead will make it.

List of bays of the British Isles - Wikipedia

There’s a Welsh rum I’ve had that isn’t too bad.
Down in the West Country, Lugger Rum | Buy Devon Spiced Rum | Lyme Bay Winery
It’s spicing makes it more like rum & coke, but it’s not far from our other house, so always a bottle on the go at one or the other.

Plenty of English rums out there, Rumbullion is a good example worth a snifter.

English Rum - Master of Malt

[vetran]

Quite happy with rum myself - as long as we've still got Jamaica* there's no need to panic just yet...

*Obviously I don't mean in an ownership sense, just as in a collective Commonwealth sort of sense. A man needs a Mojito in these testing times, y'know...

I predict a few craft micro distilleries producing beet rum etc. soon in the UK. Seems to be the way things are going.

Brandy bay & Tor Bay rum sound plausible.
not sure Fishguard & Holyhead will make it.

List of bays of the British Isles - Wikipedia

[Mordac]

Never got rum myself. Would always prefer whiskey / whisky or brandy / calvados if going for a dark spirit. But each to their own.

Quite happy with rum myself - as long as we've still got Jamaica* there's no need to panic just yet...

*Obviously I don't mean in an ownership sense, just as in a collective Commonwealth sort of sense. A man needs a Mojito in these testing times, y'know...

[Old Greg]

Never got rum myself. Would always prefer whiskey / whisky or brandy / calvados if going for a dark spirit. But each to their own.

[BR14]

No not everything.
Booze, birds, fast cars (and guitars). The rest I just squander.

Simply the Best.

shame you cant use them properly ;-)

[WTFH]

you two are snobbish about everything, arent you?
pair of prime hooray henrys.

No not everything.
Booze, birds, fast cars (and guitars). The rest I just squander.

Simply the Best.

[ladymuck]

I loved Santiago de Cuba rum. Hard to get outside of Cuba. Deliciously dark and potent.

[BR14]

I'll stick with Cane Garden Bay

St. Nicholas Abbey would be my choice..

CGB for breakfast when sailing. Pussers Painkillers at the end of a day at sea.

And for a very tasty tipple... Captain Morgan's Private Stock. (as I've said before)

you two are snobbish about everything, arent you?
pair of prime hooray henrys.