Like Costa Rica, there is a sense of formal dress in service workers. The gas stations are full service and the attendants look snappy in their uniforms. In fact, all of the uniforms (servers, tour guides, parks) are nice looking. This isn’t 100%across the board. The “guide” at the sea-cave was just dressed in a t-shirt.
Virginia, our guide at St. Nicholas Abbey
Don, our guide at the sea-cave, mon.
The homes in Barbados are, for the most part, tiny. Some are brightly colored, some have flowers or a small patch of lawn that gets cut with a weed whipper. Some have antennas and others have huge satellite dishes (that make me think of Mumbai or soccer, and I don’t really know why).
Typical Home
Lots of men have long hair, either braided or in dread locks. Some wear a hat, almost like a tall Dr. Suess hat, with (I’m guessing) their hair tucked inside.
Man wearing a hat
The school children wear uniforms to school. School gets out around 3 PM and there are hordes of kids, all ages, swarming around the little markets and along the road either walking or waiting to catch the bus.
School girl in her uniform sipping on an after school drink.
The buses go screaming fast. The “national” buses are big blue buses or big yellow buses. The small yellow buses are some other company owned bus. The national bus is $1 per ride and is quiet. The unofficial bus is $2 a ride and the play terrible music loudly.
Big blue buses