Barbados - Day Six

Unfortunately, Becki left for the airport on this day. We got up super early and drove to the airport (drove straight there – such a contrast from when Andrew picked me up and it took us 3 hours to do what should have taken 45 minutes and we ended up needing a cop to take us there) we are really getting to know the island well. There are 7 main roundabouts from the airport to our place in Bathsheba. That is how you tell where you are going, by which roundabout you are at. The streets aren’t really named. And they definitely are not on the map.

We stopped and ate the Cheffette at the airport. Cheffette is the equivalent of America’s McDonalds as far as we could tell. They are everywhere. We sat and ate, and then looked at this gift shop right outside of the gate – that has the best souvenirs I saw anywhere in Barbados. They had these paintings that were to die for, and I wanted one. Also – some great seashell jewelry.

We took Becki to the gate and said our goodbyes. It was great being able to hang out with her again. I had so much fun living with her.

On the way back, we stopped at a beautiful church by our place. Have I mentioned Barbados is covered with churches? Each Parish (Barbados is divided into Parishes - maybe 11 of them? I can't remember exactly) has a big Cathedral type church, and then there are lots of smaller ones. Anyways, each main church also has a cemetery. I thought that was cool. So we stopped and looked around the cemetery. There were graves dug in the very early 1600's. Some were like the big casket type, and lots had the intricate stone work with engraving. It was incredible.

In the afternoon, Andrew wanted some good surfing videos of him. Sadly – due to his badly sprained ankle he was having a really hard time surfing. So he asked me if I would video him. I did get some shots, but nothing amazing.

Andrew bought a book on Barbados before he came, to prepare. I read it - and loved it. I learned so much about the history of Barbados. There was a certain beach we saw in the book we wanted to go to. It was off of some intense rocks, and in the 1600’s stairs were carved into the rocks leading into the ocean. It was for women to discretely enter the ocean. Unfortunately, the picture did not really say where in Barbados the stairs were. So we googled it, and best we could find it was at Crane beach. Also listed at Crand beach was Zen, a restaurant I’d found earlier when we were looking up sushi places. We found Crane beach on the map, and headed out. We were in no hurry, so we decided to drive the entire way on the coast. Started out East, in Bathsheba, and Crane beach is in the Southeast. It took us over an hour. It was an incredible drive. On the way, we saw an older lady walking down the road with bags. So we stopped and gave her a ride. She was a riot. Whenever Andrew would say anything, she would interrupt and forcefully say, “LISTEN TO ME! LISTEN TO ME!”


We took her a ways and dropped her by her house and continued on. Crane beach is mostly converted into a deluxe hotel resort. It was incredible!!! We made reservations to eat at Zen at 6:30. We drove around the coast, looking for the stairs but couldn’t find it. We then went back and walked around the resort, enjoyed the pool and beach and incredible views… it was hysterical because everyone thought we were on our honeymoon and would offer to take pictures of us and be would be so confused when we didn’t hang all over each other for the photo.

We ate at Zen. It was awesome!!! The sushi was the freshest I have ever had. After, we hung out by the pool overlooking the ocean. The stars were awesome, the moon full. It was incredible.