Moving time

After spending 2 months in an apartment hotel, we moved to a house yesterday. The beach front location was nice for itself: great views and sometimes lovely sunsets. But it was not so good being on the top floor with a 3 year old. Truth is, the child dealt with it very well: she got to like the beach and paddling in the sea, though preferred the hotel's pool. Anyway, we knew it was temporary and could have had to deal with situations that were really much worse. The move took a while longer than expected: the movers ran out of boxes and using a small elevator to transport things was not helpful. But, no bad thing as that allowed some of final cleaning up at the house to be done completely. Everyone was doing their best and the movers were all good spirited as the day wore on.

We now feel more at ease in a house, with a garden to run around in, and space to enjoy. It's better to not always be in the midst of the tourists, and the south coast traffic and night life. We have traded the constant lapping of the waves for the rustling leaves as the wind courses through the trees. We have a lovely view of 3 different coloured frangipani trees. We also have other views to choose from, all of them with a nice framework of trees. The birds seem very at home and constantly take over the kitchen and the terrace during the day. The sound of the frogs at night is nice to us.


After a very short time, we seem to have a budding pianist, and we'll see if she can maintain that interest, to go with strumming the guitar. The ladies have already started to make good use of the swimming pool. We all looked forward to living away from the tourist strip down in Worthing, and being up on a ridge, even with no clear view of the ocean, allows us to enjoy some wonderful cool breezes most of the day.

Now we have to deal with the other realities of life in Barbados. School restarts tomorrow after nearly a month off for Easter and then the Cricket World Cup. Today is strangely quiet as the May Day holiday has seen almost all shops closed and traffic is very light. Tomorrow could be a brutal reawakening. We're located closer to school now, but there is still a lot of congestion to deal with in the morning. Anyway, we can try to take to heart some useful (?) advice in yesterday's paper: plan to leave earlier or later than usual!