Observations, Oddities & Otherwise (keep checking back)

• Of the 950 crew on board, more than half are in F&B and make/serve over 9000 meals/day.
• Americans have few words to express how their food tastes.  We use words such as great, beautiful, delicious, sublime etc etc.  Americans say their food is, “not good”, “good” or “very good”.  That’s it.  No other adjectives.  Boring lot.
• The captain on the boat in Curacao told us that marriage is becoming a thing of the past in Holland, as married couples have to pay more tax than singles, so people just live together and sign a contract as such.
• In St George’s, Grenada, they call (unofficially) speed bumps sleeping policemen.
• Everywhere the rasta’s have their dreads piled up on top of their head under these over-sized hair-net type coverings.  Not net, but all sorts of fabric with elastic bands around their heads.  We even saw one man in Roseau who had his beard dyed in rasta colours.  Quite unique!  One of the crew on board the boat that took us snorkelling in Bridgetown had his hair piled up under a rasta cap:

• We snorkelled at Champagne which Johnny Depp also did when he was here making Pirates of the Caribbean.
• In Basseterre they have tiny monkeys, ie about 8-9”, for tourists to hold and have photos taken.  No way, not going anywhere near them.  And they wear diapers, ie the monkeys not the owners.  Feel sorry for them, and no way would I give their owners any money.
• In St Croix they had American left-hand-drive vehicles, but drove on the left hand side of the road, thanks to their heritage.  Therefore the Americans were freaked out – ha.  Same in Roseau too.
• 98% of cars in San Juan don’t have front license plates.
• It would appear that more than 80% of the cars don’t have indicators.  Weaving in and out of lanes without indicating is perfectly acceptable, sometimes 2-3 lane weaving at a time.
• Walk on the right hand side of the footpath, and the right hand side of a staircase.
• Note to self:  Next time bring travel clock as there are no clocks in the cabins.
In Roseau the language is English mon, weeth faabulass Caribbean ax-sents, mon.