It was an early start, and Ticket (Christian) kindly picked me up at 630am. and drove me to the airport.

I was the last of our group to arrive, even though I probably lived the closest. So Karen, Margaret and Faye were all chatting together, waiting fir me. We dropped off our bags, did a bit of duty free shopping (gin and vodka) and headed to the lounge.

We ate breakfast here and had a few glasses of wine and soda and g&ts. You had to pay extra for prosecco, which was a bit disappointing.

After a relaxing start to the holiday we boarded the plane and ended up with 3 seats between 2 of us as the flight wasn’t that busy. I mentioned it was Karen and Margaret’s 60th birthdays so the steward kindly gave us a glass of champagne each.

I watched a couple of films and tried to sleep for a bit. Although the flight was around 9 hours long it didn’t feel like it.

I took some photos coming into Barbados. It looks quite green and the water looked beautiful.

Karen had arranged with our accommodation for us to be picked up at the airport.

We had a lovely and chatty taxi driver, Elizabeth, who gave us lots of hints and tips on the way. The traffic was really awful so we ended up going down the back roads which were much more interesting. We passed Rhianna’s house.

As we got to our apartment, which is amazing, the sun was setting so we took dome photos from our balcony.

After a quick Rum.punch we geaded to the Fush Pot restaurant which is literally over the road from us. We sat and had a cocktail on the beach and then headed into the restaurant.

The food was delicious. I just had a starter as it was quite late and I wasn’t that hungry.

It was a very relaxing end to the day. When we got back to ours, we just unpacked and went to bed.