Jamaica

Loved this country.  Friendly people and relaxed living.  Hey Mon!!  Tried the local Jamaican food and of course lots of rum and the well known Blue Mountain coffee.

Visited Bob Marley museum in Kingston after a torturous journey over the Blue Mountains but very scenic.  Too frightened to take my eyes off the road to take any photos.

In Montego Bay visited a ‘Great House’.  These were originally plantation houses whose wealth came from sugarcane and the labour provided by 2,000 slaves in the case of Rose Hill Great House.  Rose Hill is a private home that has been restored by a wealthy American couple who now open it to the public and for functions.  No one sleeps there as there is reputed to be ghosts.  The famous owner of the house ‘Annie Palmer’ had three husbands and killed them all along with killing and torturing the slaves before coming to the same end by the hand of one of her slaves.  It has been recently reported that this is not a altogether true story but it is entertaining and draws the tourists in.   Despite all of the above it is a very nice house with a spectacular view over the Carribean.

There were once 700 or so of these houses but now something like 16 are still there after the slave rebellion of 1831