Monday, February 26, 2018

Visiting Bridgetown, Barbados/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Bridgetown, Barbados/Carlos Pueblo

There is quite a distance from the pier to the old Bridgetown; therefore I march
as usual. It is a boulevard along the rocky beach there and behind it there are 6
major cruise vessels anchoring off shore. I ran into Yuan Yuan, my lovely Chinese
daughter at the atrium front desk, and she completed her early visit to the town.
I made a turn left toward the busier streets and ran into some street vendors,
two Jehovah Witness ladies, then walking toward the higher courthouses park
and neighborhood subdivision. On my way back, I ran into more street vendors
and a regular indoor market.

I first met Yuan Yuan was on the 2nd Dawn cruise and she was assigned outside of
the counter of customers service to intercept the que for some simple service. Now
I am confused where she is from, either Hebei Province or Sandong, anyway, they are
in the northern part of China. She is a beautiful and lovely girl with very good manners.
I am very proud to introduce all my daughters in this department, the best of Dawn.
Ana, GSAM, guest service area manager with 2 and a half strip on her shoulders. Silvia
Lin of the Taiwanese Argentine her Kanji first name, Chia-Lien, is derived from her
mother and father’s hometowns in Taiwan, Chia Yi and Hualien.  He Zhang is from
Wuhan, Hubei, a very attractive lady. Mary Ann Go, a Filipino lady with a Chinese surname
, is because that her parents may speak Amoy  like my mother tongue. Go means Wu in
Mandarin, is a very popular last name. Romaila, another pretty that I sometimes  am
Confused with Silvia. More, three more from the 3rd trip with Dawn, Xiaotong Rong from
the Sky, is from Tsindao, Sandong; Elaina from Brazil is very pretty and sweet with good
manners. I must apology for this last lady from Bosnia, a slender beauty who has been
to two famous mountains in the Chinese traditional martial arts legendary, Wudan
Mountain of the Daoism in Hubei and Wu Mountain nearby Chongching, Sichuan. She
spoke Mandarin.

The old town streets were full of people, both the locals and the passengers from the
cruises ships. While tourists were looking for beautiful beaches and shopping, I was
engaging the tropical fruits searching.  I did pass by a mongo stand with native species
small kinds. One piece asked for one U.S. It looked better than at Curacao yet I skipped
it and kept on moving. I went to say Hi to two ladies of Jehovah Witness stand. I
expressed my respect of their effort to save souls in the world. I asked Rosie Hunt, a
singer on the cruise ships. One of the ladies was her old classmate and hadn’t seen her
since both left school. I have had two singers daughters on board, Kayrie and Danielle,
are both from this island. I kept on moving toward the main national courthouse park
area. There are so many beautiful red flowers on big trees which I don’t know the name.
It looks as red as royal Poinciana, or delonix regia; however, it’s not, the laters  are next
side by side no yet blooming. I entered to an old neighborhood with some re-innovated
job done.
On my way back to the ship, I did walk by a street full of vendors for fruits and vegetable.
Later, there is an indoor market with half full vendors without meat and fish sections
open. A man quarreled with someone in a loud voice really made everyone very
uncomfortable. I asked the Jehovah Witness lady about the high food price and she
told me simply that they still needed to live. I can imagine the economic that a small
island with limited resource and regularly pulled in so many tourists with cash to buy
that will drive up the price if not well prepared to meet the demand.




  

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