Over the last few months I have been volunteering at several animal sanctuaries on the island, these are my experiences. Back in the UK, during the hight of the pandemic, I started volunteering with a local charity who were collecting food outside supermarkets for food parcels. …

After 6 years we finally took the plunge and got married in paradise, but it wouldn’t be 2021 without a few dramas along the way! Yesterday marked 8 months that we have been in Barbados and we are certainly starting to feel like ‘locals’. …

A global pandemic and then a volcanic eruption, if this were a disaster movie you would say it had gone too far! 6 weeks of lockdown and Covid 19 cases in Barbados were significantly down. Restaurants and shops were open, announcements had just been made to further ease restrictions and…

There is no escaping it, we too are now in lockdown in Barbados. It has been a bit of a strange start to 2021. Having mentioned in my previous post about COVID numbers creeping up before Old Year Night, New Years Day brought some news that no one wanted to…

It has been a little while since my last post, but I wanted to wait till I had some interesting stuff to say! We have been here almost 2 months now and have really started to settle in. We met a lot of our neighbours at an Independence Day BBQ…

Week one of living and working in Paradise We have now been in Barbados for a week and a half. After our quarantine was over we still had a few days in our hotel to explore the area before moving to our new apartment. Our first day of ‘freedom’ was…

2020 started well, I went on a fantastic work trip to India and had several more lined up for Oman, Nepal and Bhutan. Then Covid-19 hit and the world changed.