Barbados, West Indies

 

Ann has transportation fantasies.  Yes, transportation fantasies.  Part of her bucket list has been modes or places of transportation.  She has always wanted to take a bullet train.  She has always wanted to travel through the “Chunnel”.  Both of these accomplished years ago.  She has always wanted to travel on the Queen Mary 2.  This was accomplished during the summer of 2012.  She has always wanted to walk on the Sydney Harbor Bridge.  Accomplished back in February.  Another one, and one that will not happen was she wanted to ride on the Concorde.  Their planes have been out of operation for close to 10 years.  But, she came close today.  On the island of Barbados is what is called the “Barbados Concorde experience”.  In its heyday, the Concorde, among other places, flew from London to Barbados.  It flew several thousand flights.  Today she gleefully walked into the “Barbados Experience”, ready to get as close to this fantasy as she could.  We were able to see a film about the research, development, production, and the flights of the Concorde.  We climbed into one of these fascinating planes, sat in the seats, walked the isles, and experienced the cockpit.  She is still walking on cloud nine, having reached mach two speed, and 60,000 feet.  Making this experience more fun was traveling to the Concorde Experience with, Maggie, Linda, Jim, and John, our fantastic “table mates”.  A good time was had by all.

 

Later in the day we hired a cab in Bridgetown, Barbados and told the driver to spend two hours and take us to “his island”. 

Heading north on the island he took us through some of the more wealthy areas, the big houses on the beach.  Noteworthy, we saw where Tiger Woods was married (wow), one of Oprah’s houses and Riahann’a home.  I sure you are all interested.  We then visited St. James Parish.  This Anglican/Episcopal Church was built in 1628 by the first settlers.  The church is still in use each week and appears to be well cared for and loved.

 

We then traveled into the northern interior of the island to see the sites and views.

 

Our driver, and new best friend was Komal.  He comes highly recommended by us and we have his contact information if you are ever in Barbados, West Indies. In addition, Ann left her iPhone in his cab and he tracked us down to return it 15 minutes after we exited his cab.   People are great.  A nice day.