My Barbados Blog

Across the Internet - Blogging About Barbados on topics such as the high cost of airfare, World Cup Cricket visitor numbers, Barbados reporters reaction to Tobago's Jazz Festival, A visitor to the Barbados Jazz Festival who got a wake up call on AIDS in the Caribbean, and visitors who spend a day in Barbados, and want to return. Linda

The high cost of air travel between the Caribbean islands by the regional air carriers is a complaint shared by Caribbean residents, World Cup Cricket Fans, and Tourists alike.

The Barbados Free Press covers this subject, along with And Still I Rise, blogger from St Vincents & The Grenadines

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And on the subject of the "special visa" arrangement for World Cup Cricket, Adrian Loveridge commented on a posting at Barbados Free Press, and has an excellent remedy for handling visas for World Cup Travelers

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The impact of the 3rd annual Jazz Festival on the tiny island of Tobago vs. the Jazz Festival in Barbados was the subject on the Caribbean Beat blog.

Yvette Best, entertainment reporter at the Barbados Sun newspaper, wrote that "the Tobago Festival did not meet the "criteria of a Jazz Festival, but should instead have been called a "musical" festival". Then Caribbean Beat poses: "If Barbados, who has successfully staged jazz festivals for several years is worried, then you know that Tobago has made an impact".

In truth very few "jazz festivals" in the Caribbean have jazz musicians as head liners - Read New Jazz Kid on the Block at Caribbean Beat

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A Black Voices blog member attended the Barbados Jazz Festival, had a great time, but found himself enlightened by the plight of AIDS in the Caribbean while on vacation. Read Almost Paradise Aids in the Caribbean

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Travelers on AOL comment on their Barbados day vacation, and plan to be among the return visitors to the island. Barbados has the distinction of having the most return visitors in all of the Caribbean.