Wow, I just realized that I have not updated for a long time... 10 days. Sorry.
OK, now the latest batch of photos are posted so go to the photos link at the bottom or bottom right of this page to see them. There are lots so sit back and enjoy the slide show.
Since my last update, in Las Galeras, I have travelled lots. So I will do a brief update. This is too expensive an internet connection for lots of detail.
So I travelled to La Romana from Las Galleras by guagua. I hauled my luggage to the beach at the end of the street about 40 feet down from the hotel entrance. Got in the next guagua (pronounced as spelled - think guava) heading for the town Samana. The sliding door of the rusting ancient minivan was missing so the luggage had to be tied into bus to prevent it from flying out. I was the only passenger leaving Las Galeras but we swiftly filled up with locals and one other traveller, a young woman from Belgium. Quite the adventure.
In Samana I got on the commuter boat leaving at 9:00 for Sabana de la Mar on the south side of Samana Bay. There was a fleury of taxi drivers to get past to get to the guagua bus but I made it unscathed and even helped a young man from the Netherlands to figure out what to do next. We rode together in the back of the bus with our luggage all the way to La Ramana. There were 2 guagua changes to get through and a rest stop. I hope he survived the food from the rest stop. Foreigners are adviced not to eat it but he was hungry. I just get water to keep the hunger pains at bay.
In La Ramana we wished each other well and he hopped another guagua to Bayahibe for a 2 day rest before his flight home left Punta Cana. I stopped in La Ramana for 3 nights. I was hunting for a boat to Barbados but had no luck. I was pleased at how many people were pleased, even anxious, to help. The office manager at one marina even enlisted the services of another dock employee to make inquiries on another phone and on VHF while she was calling around to the other marinas for me.
Casa de Campo was a real interesting place. This place is more popular with the rich and famous than Lyford Cay on New Providence in the Bahamas. The yachts dwarfed High Cotton in many cases. The Capitana de Puerto, Marco, was a very handsome and charming man who gave me much good advice and lots of help. He was also an interesting man to meet as he is in charge of running this marina for the upper classes. More about Casa de Campo later.
I was going to go to Punta Cana until I realized I was trying to get accommodation there at the same time as all the travelling public in the Dominican were taking a 4 day vacation for the Easter holiday but staying close to home. So on a plane I got for Barbados. Another American Airways disaster. More on that later too.
I have now been in Barbados for 5 days. I arrived last Friday afternoon.
Details with my next entry. I am meeting up with the chiropractor that I've seen twice this week to go see an apartment he has for rent on the beach.
It is 32C here today.
Posted by gailene at April 24, 2003 01:16 PM