Slapped by a fish......

Honestly!

So here I am in the Bahamas. And the hotel is paradise. I had debated spending quite so much on this part of the trip but figured it would be my chance to stop and properly wind down. I am not very good at sitting still but every so often you just need time to be. Such inertia does bring its dangers, with less distractions there is more time to think, and sometimes you can tie yourself up in knots trying to over analyse matters but I am making a concerted effort to be brave, follow my heart and care less about what others may think. Well that is the plan but it is easier to write than do!

Anyway I treated myself to the most luxurious surroundings that I have never experienced before, and I do feel a bit of an imposter. Collected from the airport in the hotel car, I had been greeted by 4 people before I even made it through the front door! And they rang an old school hand bell to mark my arrival! Dustin, the manager, announced that they had upgraded me to a suite, which I swear is bigger than the ground floor of my house, and it comes with a butler service!!! The bar is an open hacienda on stilts  by the sea and there is so much garden that I got lost trying to get back to my room on the first night! Most of the other guests look uber glamourous, dripping in designer labels, and I am trying not to stand out in my M&S sale dress! The staff will stop in their golf buggies and offer you a lift! They all know my name and just keep asking, "Are you on your own?!" Seriously I feel like I am on a James Bond set and the past two days I have been waiting for Daniel Craig to emerge from the sea, but maybe he got his dates mixed up! Tomorrow is his last chance to impress!

So I have spent the past two days on a sun lounger, snoozing, reading and swimming in the most beautiful turquoise sea. And the sea is so warm! Yesterday I was swimming around, minding my own business, and this fish, about the size of a trout, so not small, swam straight at me, jumped out of the water and full on slapped me!!!! What the.....? I yelped, but there was no one there to see/hearit, I then suddenly wondered if the fish was running away from something bigger, and started to edge back towards the beach. But there was no fin! Just one very confused fish and one very confused Guernsey girl! Go figure!

Yesterday I did venture out of the hotel grounds, when Alan, my ex-boss, and his lovely wife Jan picked me up and took me up the coast for cocktails and dinner. It was great to catch up with them, they are fabulous company, and we ended up sat on their 5th floor apartment balcony watching a tropical lightening display that lasted for hours. Every so often there would be the most tremendous downpour, and then it would stop and the lightening would continue. It's so mesmerising watching a tropical storm. 

According to the weather reports it has been a light hurricane season here, and hopefully that trend will continue for the next two weeks.

Did I mention that there was a bottle of Veuve Cliquot in my room when I arrived? And they deliver champagne and chocolate covered strawberries to your room every evening? I may just need to sell my house, and refuse to leave here!

So tomorrow is my last full day here, and I will pretty much adopt the same pattern, snooze, swim and read, before heading out for dinner with Jan and Alan. Then it will be time to get back on the roundabout, re-enter outside life and join the chaos that will be Cuba......