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Just finished Skypeing with a prospective landlady ahead of our move in four days. It wasn’t the most coherent of conversations as she kept breaking off and shouting in W_____ (local language) at the noisy mob of women surrounding her. She ended every phrase with, “Inch’allah!” — not sure if this is a positive sign. Continue reading Not Cuba Diptheria, tetanus & polio booster? — check! Hepatitus A & B? — check! Meningitis ACWY? — check! Rabies I, II & III? — check! Typhus fever? — check! Mantoux test? — check! TB — check! Yellow fever? — check! Malaria tablets? — check! We feel like a family of pincushions after all the vaccinations we’ve Continue reading On the road again, again Ria Bacon has left the island. Sunday morning found us itching to get out of town and away from the smoke and smell of the still burning landfill (see previously). So we headed for the hills. We looked down across the Liguanea (say: Li-ga-nee) Plain; a blueblack cloud covered the city and sealed in the noxious smoke. At over 4,500 feet Continue reading Up where the air is clean I’ve just heard that Perry Henzell died this morning. I spoke to his wife, Sally, only a few days ago when we were staying at her hotel, Jake’s, in St Elizabeth. I asked her where Perry was and she pointed over her shoulder, “He’s up there in the house right on top of the hill.” Continue reading Perry Henzell — Fire in the belly |
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