BVI - Visitor Season Part II
Joyce & Colin, Jim & Loretta, Christmas 2007 and Andy’s big 40!!
The day after Sarah and Shanice left to go back to the UK, it was time for Andy's sister Joyce and her man, Colin, to come and visit. Last time we'd seen her was back in Curacao over a year ago and it was great to get to know Colin a little bit better and to show them both around the islands. It was Colin's first holiday abroad for a long time...but I think it's fair to say that he really enjoyed himself in the BVIs...not to mention to the attention he got from his Vatersay Boys T-shirt, which is now stapled to the roof of Sidney's Peace and Love Bar in Jost Van Dyke.
We had a great time when they were here, day sailing over to Jost Van Dyke, again with Kirk our long suffering skipper, plus a day trip over to Anegada, the only coral atoll in the BVIs - definitely the olde Caribbean....
Christmas is the peak season in the BVI with the ‘Christmas winds’ and warm weather attracting Americans and Europeans looking to escape their own lousy weather by sailing around in the Disneyland of sailing destinations. Unfortunately for us this meant we had to work Christmas Day so as Sadie's Dad, Jim and his wife Loretta had come over specially to see us we had our Christmas Day on the 22nd instead. The fact that it wasn’t the 25th didn't actually seem to make any difference as we still had a full on roast turkey and trimmings and lay by the pool drinking cocktails and champagne between stirring, chopping and basting. That said it never really feels like Christmas in the sun, no matter how many times you hear Bing Crosby!
On Christmas Day itself we had a full boat (yes people really want to diving on Xmas Day, go figure!) so we made a CD of Xmas tunes and took mince pies and oranges and tinsel on the boat which was a bit of a laugh, even though most of the Americans thought mince was meat, and refused to try them LOL.
New Years' was a last minute arrangement so we weren’t expecting wonders but we ended up taking a boat to Saba Rock, another tiny island in the North Sound of Virgin Gorda, where there was a fantastic party with a great DJ and free tequila and champagne all night. It was also full of extremely rich people judging by the amount of super yachts moored outside and apparently Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart were there, but we didn't see them and prob would have been too pished to recognise them anyway.
Read MoreThe day after Sarah and Shanice left to go back to the UK, it was time for Andy's sister Joyce and her man, Colin, to come and visit. Last time we'd seen her was back in Curacao over a year ago and it was great to get to know Colin a little bit better and to show them both around the islands. It was Colin's first holiday abroad for a long time...but I think it's fair to say that he really enjoyed himself in the BVIs...not to mention to the attention he got from his Vatersay Boys T-shirt, which is now stapled to the roof of Sidney's Peace and Love Bar in Jost Van Dyke.
We had a great time when they were here, day sailing over to Jost Van Dyke, again with Kirk our long suffering skipper, plus a day trip over to Anegada, the only coral atoll in the BVIs - definitely the olde Caribbean....
Christmas is the peak season in the BVI with the ‘Christmas winds’ and warm weather attracting Americans and Europeans looking to escape their own lousy weather by sailing around in the Disneyland of sailing destinations. Unfortunately for us this meant we had to work Christmas Day so as Sadie's Dad, Jim and his wife Loretta had come over specially to see us we had our Christmas Day on the 22nd instead. The fact that it wasn’t the 25th didn't actually seem to make any difference as we still had a full on roast turkey and trimmings and lay by the pool drinking cocktails and champagne between stirring, chopping and basting. That said it never really feels like Christmas in the sun, no matter how many times you hear Bing Crosby!
On Christmas Day itself we had a full boat (yes people really want to diving on Xmas Day, go figure!) so we made a CD of Xmas tunes and took mince pies and oranges and tinsel on the boat which was a bit of a laugh, even though most of the Americans thought mince was meat, and refused to try them LOL.
New Years' was a last minute arrangement so we weren’t expecting wonders but we ended up taking a boat to Saba Rock, another tiny island in the North Sound of Virgin Gorda, where there was a fantastic party with a great DJ and free tequila and champagne all night. It was also full of extremely rich people judging by the amount of super yachts moored outside and apparently Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart were there, but we didn't see them and prob would have been too pished to recognise them anyway.
