Its Wednesday at 8.00am and Cornwall’s time is 4 hours ahead of here but do not think we are in the raging sun and heat here because the showers followed us from home. After almost 24 hours travel we arrived very late on Saturday night crashed out to be woken up by an absolute downpour of heavy but warm rain which lasted about 20 minutes followed by brilliant sunshine which dried up everywhere within minutes. We are staying at an apartment known as Bayhill house is has spectacular views of the Caribbean and Atlantic Oceans but then so do all the other houses villas and hotels. St Kitts is a beautiful country but full of miserable and offensively rude ladies who work in the supermarkets and filling stations and they deem it right to be indifferent towards all tourists and most of the locals. These gum chewing lovelies (whilst serving foods)need lessons in good manners but their rudeness and ignorance is so over the top its hilarious! Similar staff with the same attitude meet you in arrivals lounge at the Airport and whilst we Brits take it all in our stride the Americans complain to no avail! So why do we come here? We have friends who live on this Island that we met in 1993 they a Rastafarian family whose lives are are as complex as a soap opera but this time we have delayed seeing them so we can relax before becoming embroiled in lives. No doubt they will use our hire car to carry them and their kids and goats and produce to all parts of the island but this is a struggling country and our family of father five sons and two daughters have not been lucky in finding permanant work hence another 2 sons have emigrated to the USA in short the same recession that has hit the UK is even worse here! We bring ‘pressies for the kids’ bought at the Car Boots which are really appreciated but they are not allowed cuddly toys because as one father told me if they have enough love for a cuddly toy they can give me the love instead! So we have brought a couple of teddy bears for the two under 5s so that should go down well!! Enjoy your day.

More later.

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