The details....

I have a bit of time this morning. Just arrived in my office. Walked as usual when I received a call from my best friend/colleague that we need to make other arrangements as his whole family will be off to KL on Tuesday. Perfect timing as always, I just told my wife I'll check if the apartment is available. Asked my staff to check it.

Anyway my trip to BVI was long. It was a 14 hours flight to Amsterdam where we were in transit for another 6 hours. Finally the 9 hour flight to St. Maarten (a Dutch colony) came but along the way after 4 hours in the air we had to turn back as the water supply developed a fault. Off we went back to Schipol, Amsterdam. Stayed on board for another 3 hours with a tiny dog yapping at my feet. The seat in front brought a tiny dog in a tiny carrier. Of course the poor thing yapped!

Finally we were off after having dozed off for hours. We are pretty sure our connecting flight at 5.00 to Beef Island, BVI have gone by then. Sure enough when we arrived at Konnigen Juliana Airport the flight was long gone. Its 8 anyway and there are no more flights available. The next day we knew why.

We opted to stay on for the night in St. Maarten at this hotel called Caravanserai. Its near the airport. Once we dropped our stuff and freshened up we went out to explore the place. Lovely tiny town with its casinos and strip clubs. We went to an Italian restaurant and had our first meal in the Caribbean. A delicious Cajun meal topped with lovely wild mushroom soup.

Took a lovely stroll by the beach before we returned to our rooms by 1.00 a.m. Our flight tomorrow is at 9 a.m. The next day during check out I managed to call our contact in BVI. I am sure he must be very concerned about our non arrival. Sure enough he was.

We took the 8 seater turbo prop across a vast ocean with no where to land in between. No wonder there are no flights at night. You can't see a thing. We arrived at the Terrence B. Lettsome, Beef Island and was met by Mr. Malcolm Arthurs, a young Jamaican lawyer working in Road Town, Tortola, BVI.

He graciously drove us to our hotel the Lambert Beach Resort, a good half an hour drive from Road Town. Its a nice beach resort, comfortable but not a place to work. Sleep eat and be merry. We dumped our stuff and Malcolm drove us to Webster & O'neals office in Road Town. Its almost like a one street one horse town but with very busy roads. Almost a big population of 10,000 inhabitants made up of locals, belongers and foreigners. http://www.bviwelcome.com.

Then Malcolm brought us to a restaurant for lunch. I had this really huge Yellowtail fish. Lovely stuff. Nice sauce, with rice and other stuff. Also had a lovely berry drink. I'll continue again later.