R2D2 has escaped Star Wars and was seen rolling around a big green field of grass wielding a polo stick and hitting a ball. Oh, my apologies .. that’s not R2D2, it’s Segway polo! While I appreciate the difficulty of this sport as competition, I find it so .. well, I find it just adorable. Instead...

On Saturday I awaited the arrival of three gentlemen from England who rented an apartment from me in our building (St Lawrence Beach Condos). Like everyone who stays in one of our pretty holiday rentals, when the three guys arrived they dropped their luggage and rushed to the picture window and swooned over...

Barbados is host to the Fireball International, an exciting, high-speed competition of slick 16-foot dinghys with enormous sails designed to really move. The race begins today and runs for two weeks in Carlisle Bay at the Barbados Yacht Club. Seventy contestants from 15 countries from the US to Russia have...

If you’re not in Barbados, you’re missing the Mount Gay Regatta 2009, which began today.  I’ve been watching the sailboats sailing pass by all morning.  Here’s a photo of it I took for you: This morning I received an e-mail from a guest who’s coming from...

Barbados: Dining Out Chichi I was so relieved that I wore my expensive designer sunglasses to lunch at The Lone Star yesterday because clearly the clientele there are the type who notice.  I’ve been hanging on the south coast too much where nobody notices or gives a hoot, so I forget sometimes that...

The only thing I know about cricket is that there’s an advertisement for condoms along Hwy 7 that reads, “It’s your wicket. Protect it.” I’ve tried to understand cricket – honest!  I attended my first game at Barbados’ Kensington Oval in mid-2008 and was fascinated...