Places to Visit in Barbados: Hunte’s Gardens (Video)

As a holiday island, depending on what you're interested in, there's no lack of things to do and places to check out in Barbados. Be it hiking, scuba diving, snorkeling, car racing, go-carting, restaurant hopping, swimming in the sea, whatever you like it's all available on the island. If you're interested in nature and botanical …

Credit/Debit Card Declined in Barbados 2 of 2

In my previous post, I explained the restrictions on how much money a visitor could bring into Barbados and the amount to be declared. I also spoke about the strict dollar regulations on the Island including  ATM withdrawals. In this post, i'll explain to you how my debit card stopped working after I paid for …

Leaving Barbados; My Quest For Dual Citizenship Continues

My request to extend my visa in Barbados got rejected. The Barbadian Immigration Authority felt I didn't have a good enough reason to extend my stay in Barbados. I had to leave the Island at the expiration of my 1 month visa stamp I got at GAIA. It sucks to leave sooner than I expected …

How to Apply for a Visa Extension in Barbados 2020 (Avoid these 3 Mistakes I Made)

You've made it to the rum paradise and like thousands of tourists you don't want to leave. The next step for you is to extend your visa in order to keep living the island life sipping coconut water and taking dips in its turquoise waters. In my previous post I explained how my visa extension …

Week 3; Tourist Visa Extension Barbados 2020

Barbados Immigration Department In my previous post, I told you guys how I was given a 1 month visa upon arrival in Barbados instead of 6 months by immigration at the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA), and also how I visited a lawyer and saw no hope of attaining citizenship. However, I was advised to …

How Safe is Barbados? 2020

Before visiting Barbados, I wasn't really worried about how safe the island would be and how freely I could move around as a tourist considering i'm from Nigeria, black and would blend in quite well. However, my husband as a white tourist would stand out and thus safety posed a concern. This is because, based …

Week 1 in Barbados

I can truly say that Barbados is beautiful as nature made it, the Bajan people are very nice and will offer help without you asking for it. In the capital city of Bridgetown, roads are paved with old buildings painted in bold colors of orange, lime green, pink, blue giving the small town some character and just enough color to brighten up your day.

Flying to the Island of Barbados

After spending 3 spectacular months in the "Holy Land", it was time for my trip to Barbados (you can view my previous post here). For this trip, I booked a 6 months return ticket with Lufthansa  at $1,180 per passenger which was a steal considering it was peak season. As explained in my previous post, …

To all the time I spent in 2019

2019 has come to an end and like every crazy ass year before, there's no taking back all the time I've spent on social media scrolling mindlessly for hours instead of reading a book. I've spent precious hours of my life watching TV shows like 90 day fiancee, GOT and other guilty pleasures that consume …

Ghosted! What it Means and How it Feels

I'm not gonna lie, being ghosted HURTS! all the sudden no texts, no calls, then there's that dreadful feeling you get the moment you realize you've been blocked without warning. I always wonder, is it best to talk things out? be a bit mature; communicate to the other person why you no longer want to …

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No highs without lows nor fights without blows our scars, it shows but we accept our woes hook, line as it flows. Even when doors close and life slows, the stone she throws become the seed that grows. Happiness no one owes the choices we chose have made us foes, our brains froze and grew …

I do.

She said "i can't wait to get married and be happy" and i found her statement damn well laughable. i'm not old, 26 years of life experience is all i have in my portfolio, 8 months of which i've spent married and i can assure you that the single life is the easy life. i …

FOMO 2

How do you convince a person that being alone is okay? as a virgo i don't have these problems, fact of the matter; time alone is a necessity for my existence, to recharge, to get back all the energy spent mingling and being social. yet i suffer. in this internet age and man made paradox …

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i wonder why i can't seem to run fast in my dreams, maybe like the feeling of falling it's only peculiar to this smoke reality. can i be a quiet and gentle soul like the girl i hope to become? will i always remember that there is no future because the future is now or …

Libre

today i learned that persistence is what separates winners from losers in life's  grand theatre. life is indeed what you make of it and fear is the mind killer.   Picture: tinybuddha.com Inspiration: After a year of dark days, today I won and it's indeed like a dream. (Psalms 126:1-6) Listening to "Hillsong young and …

Siempre adelante…

Una vida de valor es dificil de vivir, pero tratamos nuestras mejor y eso es suficiente. siempre adelante....siempre.   Pictura: potential2success.com Inspiracion: La vida pasa y es siempre por la mejor. Estoy agradecido por mi vida. Siempre!!! (Soy escuchando que "Bad Bunny - Como antes")

What’s free?

what's free? in life what's given, pure? what's heaven on earth in days long like shadows? what's free?   Picture: blog.bible Inspiration: Listening to  David Baloche - Nothing can Separate    

Brought to life

Everything's smaller when you see it from here; high, low, perspective being what it is. fear is a useless emotion; alps curbing life's panoramic view. Here, we believe in the power of belief; self fulfilling prophesies... as you choose how to see the world with deep blue eyes, I'll be right here sketching my life's …

I wonder

in this game of you versus life i wonder about your view through eyes electric blue; knowing firecoal suns, peering through pearly gates.   Picture: Fatima Albudoor Inspiration:  01/10/19, 1:24am thinking about life      

Our Light…

i don't know how you feel about this page turning like circles in time, or if you see what tomorrow holds; how her starry eyes will unfold. God only knows His love...our light...   PS: To you the reader - "Thank you for your support in 2018. May 2019  reveal to us wisdom to succeed …

The end…

even sweet and sour songs must come to an end. sober reflections, past...present. maybe this sunset will lead us home to new beginnings, God i hope so.   Picture: shutterstock.com Inspiration: Today is the last day of the year 2018.            

Time flies

Time flies. one day you're here the next you're there, old dead. Picture: worklifepsych.com

Trabajo

satisfaction in work is our only reward in this fleeting life   Picture: unsplash.com Inspiration: Ecclesiastes 3:22 NLT (this is my favorite book of the Bible)    

Anxious

he says overthinking won't help, i do it anyway nonstop in my loco head dancing in a loop of thoughts. he thinks i'm a star porque i made it this far... lucky me!   Picture: woked.co Inspiration: Casting Crowns - In Me

Going with the flow

cross my heart, i have no idea where the heck i'm going like what do i really want? is writing truly my destiny or am i just making it up as i go along? when my fluid perspectives take me every which way, i try to use all you've given me God knows i try.   …

In the Middle

you know that wavy line...the one between extreme and not? well, i crossed it. i got caught up in a life that wasn't mine, dancing to the sweet melody of curiosity. i spied her hazel eyes and for the first time, wrong felt goddamn right. what was i supposed to do? not kiss and tell? …

Avant-garde I

Maybe i'm running a little far away from this life as a cry for help; for you to hold me and never let me go. To tell you the truth, if it comes easy in life, it may as well not have come at all. Pain must lead to gain and there's no in-between , …

Highs and Lows

i'm struggling to stay fucking calm, to sober up and realize that you love me despite the highs and lows. i feel like these vices are what keep me in the loop, insane enough, ever ready to send me to mars when life's bullshit stares me point blank in the face. i think i'm obsessed …

Solace

days like this when i feel like i can't take it anymore, i find solace in your words that never die.   Picture: success.com Inspiration: Every Little Thing by Hillsong Young and Free

I’m trusting the process

I guess it’s not easy to just free-fall into the universe and let Him save me. but i will   Picture: abovetopsecret.com Inspiration: Free-fall by Royal Taylor