Trip Report: Blue Mountains, Boston Bay, Kingston

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husband piped down once he had his brandy and we all settled in for the ride. i was stuck on the right-hand side of the car, so i couldn’t really take any photos if i’d wanted to.

here’s a photo i took of the sign of the restaurant we stopped at for lunch in morant bay.






$500j per person for fried chicken, rice, stew pea and some shredded cabbage and carrot. ti boss and i wanted curry goat but the menu was a liar.



here’s a shot of the dining room.








and here’s a shot of the toilet in the ladies room.







when i got out, warren was like, “was it clean?” and i was like, “hellllllllllllllllllllz no.” and he said, “ i figured not. i will use the side of the road once we leave.”

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we went back to the pool after dinner.








ti boss splashed around, husband watched movies on the laptop and i played around on my phone.

i crpped out at 10:30 and went to the room to sleep. my guys came in around midnight.

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the rest of the ride went quick-ish. we kept getting stuck behind gigantic, slow moving trucks and drivers who weren’t confident enough to pull past the trucks. the funny thing is that’s what i figured woulda happened on the trip through the blue mountains, not on the trip through st. thomas.

we got to the terra nova around 4:30 (seems to be a theme this trip).

check-in was easy. room is fine in an upscale yet understated way. the bed is EXTREMELY comfortable.

ti boss went swimming ( i chilled at the pool area) and husband took a walk over to devon house.

when it got dark, husband and i took a 6 minute walk up the road to mega mart, on an unsuccessful mission to replace the tweezers i’d misplaced during our stay at strawberry hill.

husband and i got back fairly quickly and we all had dinner at the hotel.






the verandah restaurant is really pretty, with formal settings. the food and cocktails were cheaper than at strawberry hill. the food was better, but the cocktails were not.

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today (day 10) is our final full day.

we're being picked up at 11 to spend the day touring around kingston.

here is my list:

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our guide at the bob marley museum was very charmless, but husband enjoyed the tour.

last time i went i don't remember it being so packed with tour groups, but i also was there on a random day in april. maybe it was just less busy then.


we passed through stand pipe after we left the museum.














michael,our driver/guide, stopped to top up his cellphone. when he came back he said, "they just killed someone two minutes ago." we drove for about 5 seconds and saw a crowd of people leaning over railing, looking down into a gully. "there. the body's there." we didn't see it.

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michael drove us through trench town and showed us first street and second street, where many of the most famous jamaican musicians originated.

i spotted an older dread standing just outside his yard with a big pot of something for sale and i just knew it was gonna be good, whatever was in that pot.




$150j per ear

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we drove through jungle and denham town.

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we did a quick-ish pass through the kingston craft market, where husband bought 3 football jerseys, then we headed over to the culinary highlight of our trip, MOBY DICK RESTAURANT.

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okey doke, we hit everything on my list except devon house and megamart. i think i'll try to rally my guys to walk to megamart this evening.