We have arrived in St kitts and most disappointingly we have no wireless at the hotel, so our posting will slowdown but we will try our best!
We last posted from the Kingston airport via a rather expensive Credit Card activated wireless network, that was on Thursday so we will try and remember what we have been up to since then!
We checked out of the Liguanea Club at about 8am and drove our hire car to the airport, when we arrived the guys were not there to collect the hire car we backtracked to the Royal Jamaican Yacht Club to admire the boats, very impressive! Mostly big fishing cruisers. When we got back to the airport we had to wait another 10mins for the people who were collecting the car, when they finally arrived we handed over the car without any hassles and went to check in.
The departure lounge was OK, not as good as the one on Montego Bay but we passed some time looking at the shops. We found out that there was a wireless network but it needed a credit card to access it, Richard did the honours, while we sat at the bar and drank out the last of our Jamaican Dollars! And that was the last time you heard from us.
The flight to Antigua was about 3hrs passing over quite a few of the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean which made for interesting views. We had about 2hrs in the transfer lounge at Antigua, the shops took up about 5mins of that and the rest was sitting and waiting. The plane that would take us to St Kitts was about the size of a Golden Arrow bus, with propellers strapped on the side! The flight took about 20mins and Im glad the age of propeller driven aeroplane is over as I had quite a headache by the time we arrived, might also have had something to do with the time spent at the Kingston Airport bar trying to drink out J$!
We caught a taxi Gateway Inn with a rather excitable taxi driver, who really liked our Tour Shirts! Most of the people we have met want to join our “Official drinking Team”!
Our hotel is nice, more like a motel, all on one level and is similar to a row of semidetached houses and about twice the size of my flat.
We got a relatively early night after a quick beer and hamburger at the restaurant over the road. The next day was the first SA game and what a game it turned out to be!
The day started well and we caught a taxi to the stadium with the other fans staying here, 2 Aussies, 2 South African on one Scot so that worked out a bit cheaper. The saving in money was short lived once we got to the gate and Rich realised he had left the tickets on the table back at the hotel!! Another US$12 back to fetch them! We rushed back to find that the start of the game was delayed because of the rain the night before, and it eventually got underway at 12:00, 3 hrs late! Im sure you all watched the game so I wont go into details but wow what a game! 3 records broken by SA Gibbs hit 6 6’s in one over Boucher scored the fastest 50 ever off 21 balls and I cant remember the other one!
We have tickets to the “Party Stand” which includes lunch and 8 drinks of choice, no arm-twisting necessary for the rum! They were serving El Dorado 12year old, voted “the best rum in the world” by a panel of clever people, and I agree, it went down like cool drink! After the first couple of rum ‘n cokes we got to know the barman who preferred the Safircans to the Aussies and started getting heavy handed with the rum! We then came up with an ingenious plan of using one drink ticket to get a whole cup of rum and paying cash for a bottle of coke, as you can imagine things went down hill from there!
After the game we walked down to the town square in search of a party, there was a concert in the park but it was flooded with local and no tourists so the search continued! Eventually we found a Dutch pub to gate crash! Everything and everyone was orange, we were in green, thankfully the Dutch are friendly folk and we were soon all good mates! We had good fun with them until it started to empty out, no idea what time this was but I spose it must have been about 7pm, the night was still young!
We caught a taxi to Frigate Bay beach and settled into a beach bar with some American students a few minutes later Charl Langeveld arrived so we had a chat and a few beers with him, he remembered us from the game (we kept offering him rum!) and he was pleased we made the trip all the way from SA to come and support the team!
We decided to find another bar and walked down the beach to the “Siggidy Shack” and found the rest of the SA team! We had a great time with them, what a great bunch of guys! They all had loads of time for us and, like Charl, were really pleased that we came to support them.
You guys who were on the Rugby tour to JHB last year will remember that we were on the same plane as Graeme Smith and that I told him we would be in the Caribbean and that he must keep an eye out for us, AND HE REMEMBERED US FROM BACK THEN!! But he must have thought I was kidding because he was really surprised to see us there! We were stoked that he remembered!
The Officail Drinking Team with Graeme and Ashwell
We hung out with the boys for a bit and decided to go back to the other bar, unfortunately it was around this time that we got separated! I looked for Rich for what felt like forever but it was probably more like 10mins! I then found a taxi to take me home lucky I had the keys! On the way we drove past Richard who had decided to walk back so we stopped to pick him up.
We woke up way too early on Saturday with a hangover of note and no food in the house, so we braved a walk to the supermarket to get some supplies, mainly bacon and eggs! The walk seem to take way too long, it really looked much shorted out the window of the taxi the day before! Thankfully the locals took pity and we were offered a lift in both directions. The bacon and eggs went down well as would be expected and the rest of the day was spend doing nothing but recovering!
Today, Sunday, the Aussies are playing the Dutch and we promised the Dutch we met at the pub that we would be at the game today wearing orange, unfortunately we are not going to make it but I’m sure we will see them at the Dutch pub after that game!
The Aussies are not fairing so good and are 145-3 and unfortunately the Dutch also dropped 2 catches! GO NEDERLANDS!!!
Our Next game is on Tuesday so if we are not able to post before them make sure you keep an eye out for us!!!
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