Ah finally somewhere warm.

Tobago has been so good for us- staying in one place for more than a couple of days is a real luxury.

Our flight arrived at Trinidad at about 4pm, with a few hours stopover in Panama City. In Trinidad, we ran into a bit of strife with our visas- the problem was we didn't have any. First of all, the guide book says its possible to buy them as you enter for 100 T&T- less than 20 dollars. Secondly, why should a visitor from one Commonwealth nation visiting for tourism reasons even need one to visit another. We certainly wouldn't be there to get jobs- we're better off working at home. Anyway, 68 US dollars each later, we were able to enter the country.

From that moment on we were in intense backpacker mode, that "visa waiver" was not part of the budget. I was able to get a guy to give us a lift to our hostel in his hire car for free. We ate Churches fried chicken for tea, and had bananas for breakfast. We caught the ferry which is cheaper than flying to Tobago, and met some girls who gave us some local knowledge on a cheap place to stay. We hung out the first day with Ashley (from the US) and Shewonta(from Trinidad- and I hope that spelling is close), who were day tripping from Trinidad. We ate bake and shark, and curry. The food in T&T is incredible, because they have African, English, Spanish and Indian influences. BUt they are desperately in love with KFC style fried chicken, which we ate too many times.

We stayed in a cheap guest house, where we were able to cook for ourselves (and watch some TV in english- talk about luxury). We just went to the beach most days, but on the second last day, we went on a boat trip that we managed to get for about 12 dollars each- it was a glass bottom boat, and we went snorkelling. After that, we hired a car for 24 hours (haggled for this too- one of the beach vendors rented us his girlfriends car). This enabled us to explore the rest of the island, go turtle watching for free instead of costing 50 dollars each, and get a good deal on a cook book as a souvenir for BJ.

On everybodies lips was the cricket test match in Jamaica, they were optimistic, but Australia got up thank god.

We left on the ferry, paying some random guy less than 4 dollars to take us halfway up the island in his "taxi". Instead of getting a 30 dollar taxi from the Trinidad ferry terminal to the airport, we got a maxi taxi for less than 4 dollars. Churches chicken again for lunch, then the airport decided they weren't going to charge us the mandatory 100T&T departure tax. So now we're stuck with 200T&T, which hopefully we can exchange in Europe.