Monday, August 17, 2009

11. A Bigger Splash (Mick)

Our house on Virgin Gorda is the groovily-named "A Bigger Splash". Its a terrific house, located at the south end of the island about 5 minutes walk from The Baths (more on that from Ciaran in tomorrow's blog).

Even after just a day or two here, the feel of this island is very different to Tortola. This end of the island is flat and quite dry, more sand and cactus, less jungle and hillsides. Its more open to the winds which make it cooler and best of all less buggy. The house is really big, laid out on several levels with a wonderful pool and the luxury of a room for each boy. One of my fellow travelers commented that the colour scheme wasn't quite as original as Limeberry's which reminded me of Chandler's comment about the problems of small wallets.

The sensible thing to do on our first full day would be to explore the island, get our bearings and plan out the rest of the week. But holidays aren't about being sensible are they, so we decided to just chill out, and spent the day reading, swimming and, of course, blogging.
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