Trinidad

Sightseeing Trinidad

Yes, I am still in Trinidad. I came for the carnival 6-7 of March to stay a week or so.

Today there is one month here. Some friend told me yesterday that the carnival was over.  hehe

But I have met many new friends here, and are having a good time.

Lately I have been spending a lot of time with four Norwegians that are sailing a steel 43 foot

boat back to Norway. Captain and owner is Jof, then the crew is Tonje, Jonny and Arne.

Arne is the only one with sailing experince. The boat has been at land for 3 years,

but has been around the world two times.

I have been helping them getting the boat ready for the 4800 miles sailing.

Went out on a test Sunday and stayed over by anchor in a bay close by.

Still a few things to be done, but we are planning to sail north Friday this week the April 8th.

Ready painted and going in the water.

The name of the boat is ' Langt avsted'

which is Norwegian and means ' Far Away'

A day on a trip to Port of Spain.

I went with a smal group of other sailers to Port of Spain to see

the Angustora destilery.

A guess everybody has heard of Angustora bitter.

They also make rum. Interesting tour with  very good information

about the history which goes back to 1824.

The German man Dr. Siegert invented the bitter while he was working

in Angustora in Venezuela to help people with stumac problems.

Later he moved the factory to Trinidad

Happy group after tasting all the different rums.

Dr. Siegert also collected butterflys, and he  placed them all in wooden frames

Impresive collection of 1000 butterflys.

All  sizes and colours. 650 different butterflys live in Trinidad

Just a little part of the collection.

Well next time a update the blog there should be more sailing pictures.