Speyside - Blogabond

We got on the first flight out from Trinidad and got to Tobago allot earlier than we had even hoped for, Excellent we thought as we got into the main city of Scarborough.

We started with calling the Venezuelan ferry and reserved our seats and also made sure it was alright to pay for them the same morning.
That done we went on the book the afternoon boat back to Trinidad so that we were going to be able to some diving up in the other side of the island and still have time to go back the same day.
This is where everything started to go wrong the afternoon ferry was canceled so there was only one in the morning, o.k. we figured we will just fly back as well, me not thinking about the no flying after diving rules that are.
We called the airport and they said there was plenty of room left so despite of better judgment we didn’t reserve the seats.
Instead we got the bus that was supposed to take 1 – 1½ hours up to the village of Speyside and where all the good diving is supposed to be.
On the way the bus got into an accident and had to turn around to go back to Scarborough to report the accident this took in total about

our lifesaviour

2hours until a new bus came and picked us up and took us up the island. We asked the bus driver to let us of at Speyside but he forgot so when we had passed the village and the beach and started to go up the hills again a lady behind me woke me up and said “weren’t you guys supposed to get off at Speyside?” I told her that “yeah we are. Is it soon?” “We just passed it she told us and then we were stuck on the bus crossing the island to Charlotteville, Not a bad city but since we were still planning on going diving we asked the bus driver to take us back and this costing us another ½-1 time this meant that once we got to Speyside it was late in the afternoon and since the electricity was out everything was dark.
We walked into the first dive shop we saw and asked some questions and that’s when it hit us; we couldn’t dive, at all. So after a brief mourning period we went looking for at least a nice hostel/guesthouse something but we found nothing.
And just when everything felt hopeless the same girl who had asked us about the diving and flying took us in her car and drove us around the village to look for cheap accommodation but still nothing since it was only a couple of hours time we had we wanted to be a little closer to the beach so we ended up sleeping one night in a really expensive hotel right next to the beach.

expensive pasta for two

Some of you might think that this is where the story ends but it goes on. The next morning we once again got up had breakfast and a little walk along the beach relaxing and intent on enjoying our day in Tobago, we went back to the hotel to get our camera and swimming gear and also call the airport again.
That’s when we found out there was only one flight left and it was leaving at 2, it was now 10 o’clock that gave us only 3 hours to get to the airport and it had taken us almost 6 to get to where we were from the airport.
There was only one thing to do we threw everything back into the bags and went for a taxi back.
Luckily one came and it only took 1½ hours to get to the airport so when we got there we were able to get on standby and even catch an earlier flight to Port of Spain and back to our wonderful host.
Wednesday morning we took the boat to Venezuela and that’s were I’m sitting now it was probably one of the fastest visits to the island of Tobago but it was really beautiful with a lot of hills and small mountains small rivers and always close to the sea.

Chris

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Steffi & Chris on November 24, 2009 from Speyside, Trinidad and Tobago

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