Port Antonio

Airport in Kingston, Jamaica on monday:
Woman: Do you have your return ticket?
Me: I'm leaving third of october.
W: Do you have the ticket?
M: I've been to Cuba and they have poor internet and no printers.
W: You didn't print it at home?
M: No.
W: Well, where are you going after Santo Domingo?
M: I don't know.
W: Don' know?
M: I will travel for a year and don't know where I'm going next.
W: Oh. So then you have a lot of money?
A nod from me, big smile from her and I was through. A Norwegian passport is a very good thing to have! And I didn't even have to lie and tell her that I had a ticket. I just never said I didn't..

Thanks to my better half in Norway, that helped us e-mail a couple of guest houses before we arrived (which was almost impossible in Cuba, as mentioned several times, and extremely expensive), we got picked up by a driver at the airport. So we got straight to our nice home at Drapers San, without having to go into Kingston. Quite nice, as Jamaica is the country in the world (not at war) with the most killings, most of them happening in Kingston.

As we are in the middle of the hurricane/rainy season, we've had a lot of bad weather here. Tuesday I mostly stayed in my room (for the first time since I left home I have MY room!) reading, except for a small snorkelling trip just down by where we live.

In the night a thunder storm hit us with all it's power, pretty similar to the one we had in Viñales. It lasted all evening and night. The light went out for about an hour (happy I had my head light!), our host told me that was normal here, happens once a week. Usually when they get in big drug shipments. If it was that or just the weather was impossible to tell.

Today we've had two wonderful dives with a very good diving centre (the opposite of Cuba), along a nice wall and some well preserved corals. Saw mainly just the ordinary fishes, but also a huge crab down at 20 metres. Wouldn't like to get close to those claws!

Now we're at a small mall, getting a pedicure. Needed after all our walking in the past three weeks. Not to mention all the blisters. Soon home for some dinner, they make wonderful food at our guest house. And then tomorrow we'll try, if the weather is ok, to take a boat trip up a river and to some beaches. Before we in the evening leave for Treasure Beach, as far away from here you can go on this island. Which means about five hours driving. I'm not sure of the distance, but that's five hours on horrible roads. So it's a really small island.


-- Posted from my iPod