Well, actually, we've been to Barbados! We had a wonderful week back at The House being looked after and very pampered. Every holiday should begin with a hug - indeed most of my holidays DO begin with a hug! We got a wonderful huggy welcome from Andrew when we walked out of the taxi and into the courtyard, and we certainly enjoyed our bottle of fizz in the room - its good to be a returning guest!
Our holiday was a week of pure and simple unadulterated relaxation. We needed it! We've both been a bit tired and stressed out recently and when we began to unwind it left us pretty much unable to move or make a decision any more taxing that what to have for dinner! We'd start the job of relaxing for the day by having a champagne breakfast, then toddling off to our sun lounger with a book, soaking up the sunshine and being brought water, cold towels, ice cream, fruit... Oh, relaxing can be a tough old job I can tell you!
We did have a little "liquid sunshine" for a day. We headed out for a little light shopping and lunch in Holetown which is just up the road. I did well on the shopping front! There are lots of little shops decked out like Chattel Houses and they house loads of little speciality shops...quite of a few of which sell jewellery. I got two beaded necklaces (nothing expensive, but very gorgeous) and the most exquisite silver and shell pendant drop which sits beautifully on a silver collar I got in Edinburgh last year.
Aside from a little liquid sunshine the only other evidence of it being hurricane season was the strange wave phenomenon that was going on on the West Coast. Normally they have flat calm turquoise seas with little teeny weeny lapping waves. Not the week we were there!! There were huge rolling breakers of the kind normally found on the East coast, or Waikiki beach! It pretty much washed the beach away. Then on one day we had waves that changed from huge to totally freakin' massive!! They suddenly got a whole lot bigger, swamped the poor folks on the beach and the wash continued up onto the pool deck where I was sitting - which is a good few feet above beach level! The staff sprang into action and quickly moved all the cabanas and loungers off the beach and onto the deck, then began trying to move the beach back off the deck and back onto the beach. That was a bit of a futile task that afternoon!! They managed it the next morning, whilst being supervised by 30 adults sipping champagne and tucking into breakfast....ah, its a hard job doing all this relaxing!!!
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