Around Barbados


After a season of visitors and a bit of driving about, we have compiled a few photos of out about in Barbados.

Starting on the east coast, the grounds of the St. John Anglican church offer a range of fantastic vistas.

Around Barbados

The view from St. John’s Church

Views of gnarled trees

The church itself is an interesting architectural relic from the past

The church graveyard, perhaps due to the view, is the eternal resting place of a number of prominent Bajans, and even former world leaders. Ferdinand Palaiologos, of the Byzantine Palaiologos ruling family, is buried here.

Ferdinand Palaiologos

Nearby is Codrington College. The grounds here also offer a lovely view. For a reasonable fee, there are tour guides that can take you around and explain the rather sordid past of the college, incuding the slave-owning Codrington Family, who owned plantations all over the Caribbean, and whose money funded a library at Oxford.

The view from Codrington

The tour at the main foyer

After visiting Oistens Fish Fry once, and getting swamped by tourists and traffic, we decided to try a different location at the other end of the island. The Moon Town Fry is also very exciting and offers some classic views.

Fishermen at Moon Town

Receding shoreline

One of the fish frys

Thanks to our local friend, Philip the Palm guy, there are beautifal silhouettes of palm trees all over the island.

More palm trees

Pelican Village is another excellent location to bring visitors.

Dancing show at the village

Barbados cigars made with Cuban tobacco

As I noted in a previous post, Speightstown is one of our favourite sailing launch points. It is also a historic village with lots of centuries-old buildings.

Timothy House – 1788

Old buildings

Old buildings

Old building

A bit of pep talk for the down trodden

Speightstown has a lovely waterfront and breakwater with a resident population of cats.

Waterfront

Waterfront

Waterfront

Speaking of cats, we had a cat-sized dog stay with us for a couple weeks. Lola, a chihuahua belonging to one of my colleagues came to visit.

Lola the dog

The cars

Our hibiscus

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