Wonderful Cornucopia Of Down Home Trinidad Delights.

Eenst Fuchs.


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A lovely surprise this morning, the post brought a big wooden box which was crammed full of things from Trinidad.

It was sent by my cousin Aileen and her husband Philip, a truly  wonderful cornucopia of down home Trinidad delights.

They even sent me a bottle of Trinidad rum, Vat 19, really good rum, Trinidad rum is nothing like the dark stuff that is passed off as good rum.

When I was back in Trinidad in 1997, I drunk some good rum at a party, then suddenly it did not taste good anymore.

I asked where the rum was from, at first they told me Trinidad, I said no way and amid much laughter I heard the rum was from Venezuela.

So I was right, it was not Trini rum, funny thing was I only ever had a couple of chances to drink rum from Trinidad.

Yet I had no problems noticing that the rum was suddenly no longer the good stuff, I certainly was not drinking rum when I lived in Trinidad as a child.    

Very exciting receiving a box of goodies from Trinidad, this has given me a huge boost today, which is just what I needed today.

Having a restful day today slept quite well last night but still very tired today so decided to do very little today.

We had another very pleasant visit yesterday from our friends Gareth and Paul.

Gareth used to live here in Amsterdam, came on holiday in 1988 and returned to live here the year after.

Although he has been back in Wales since 2003 we still miss him alot, Gareth is an absolute darling a really extraordinarily fine person and his partner Paul is a sweet kind man.

So nice to see two such nice people so happy togther.

Their two visits to us have given us a tremendous boost.