Sunday, May 16, 2010

I got up late, catching up on my sleep felt really good, plus I got pretty drunk on rum last night. I tried this drink called 'hard wine' the slogan is 'feel the heat' and it has a silhouetted image of a naked man and woman on the front, I have a feeling that it is sort of an energy and alcohol drink aimed at people as being like a natural Viagra. When I woke up I could not be bothered at all to leave my bed, I was so comfortable and was a little bit too late to do what I wanted to do. I had initially planned to go to another city on the south of the island called San Fernando but I wasn't too fussed about it, so I didn't, mind too much when I never went. Instead I went for a walk around the city. Port of Spain is not the most beautiful city I have been to, or does it have the most to do, to be honest, there isn't much at all here but it is what it is and its in the Caribbean so I'm not complaining. I went along the main road that is parallel to the coast, headed for the centre of town. I completely forgot that it was a Sunday, pretty much everything was closed, a couple of cars, a shop or two and a few restaurants. I went into a supermarket to get a drink and ended up buying something called 'cool mauby' it was a local drink made from some bark, it was so bitter, like almost to the extent of Fernet, in fact it tasted so similar to Fernet that it almost made me sick. I gave it to the first homeless person I saw and he said something I have no idea what. Along my walk I went past the Brian Lara promenade, nothing special to such a big legend from the T & T. I headed roughly in the direction of my hotel, ended up in the so called ghetto of the city, it did look pretty run down, everything had barbed wire on it and the pavement was all broken up. I walked past block of flats and someone up the top shouted down to me if I wanted any drugs or anything, I said no and walked on. That was a clear sign for me to head out from that area so I took the first turning off and towards the main street again. Once again I ended up in a place that looked pretty dodgy, I walked past a house with a few people sitting outside, they called me over so I went, not too sure why but I went anyway. They introduced themselves, they were clearly drug dealers but I told them I didn't want anything and they didn't argue or anything so we had a chat for a few minutes, they told me to be careful around here, there are some bad parts.

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