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simbad

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Hi everyone as some of you know I’ve been on my hols for the past 2 weeks, a bit of a special one this year as its our 25th wedding anniversary and my 50th birthday so we had a fabulous break in Antigua, never thought I’d see humming birds and pelicans in real life, amazing!!!!
Thought you might like to see a few pictures of where we stayed :-)


View from our room window.


Longbay Beach

A few pictures of the wildlife

Think this is a green spotted tree lizard ?

Humming Bird, very hard to catch this little fella as he was so fast :-)


Another lizard, variety unknown :-)
A few pictures of the beautiful hotel gardens


Couldn’t believe the size of this Yucca!!!!
We went on a boat trip around the island and saw all the sites, drank too much rum punch and left our t-shirts on the boat,oops, also visited the highest point on the island ‘Shirley Heights’ on the way we saw houses of the rich and famous this is owned by Eric Clapton, he hasn’t painted it like most of the other houses on the island as he wanted it to blend into the hillside, you can stay there for £1000 a night!!!, wonder if you can go for an hour :-)


Have loads more pictures but don’t want to bore you all, finally a couple of cactus for Hywel :-)


Well back to reality now and all that washing, aaaargh :-)

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Comments

 

Wonderful photos. Glad you had such a lovely time.
Amazing Cactus pics !
Congrats on your 25th and 50th :o)))

20 Mar, 2012

 

They are lovely photos. Congrats and glad you saw paradise x

20 Mar, 2012

 

excellent - happy Birthday and congrats on anniversary !!! Great pictures - nice and very warm , cute lizards :))))))))) Love especailly the final pic ;)))))

20 Mar, 2012

 

What a wonderful place for a holiday! Are you having another anniversary next year - no reason not to celebrate the 26th! Those little lizards are really something.

20 Mar, 2012

 

Lucky you Simbad...I know just how that feels...and the washing! lol xx

20 Mar, 2012

 

Congratulations Simbad, it looks a wonderful place for a special holiday, your pics are really good pleased you enjoyed it, I take it you have left a deposit for Eric`s palace, s`pose you could make it for your golden, plenty of time to save up...

20 Mar, 2012

 

Wow congratulations on your 50th and Silver Wedding, what a fabulous place to celebrate it, it all looks wonderful, like the little lizards the one on the tree is very well camouflaged, sounds as if you had a great time, enjoy your garden now you are back, lots to see and do lol

20 Mar, 2012

amy
Amy
 

It looks like heaven Kathy what a fabulous place to celebrate your special occasions ,congratulations on both and very many more to come :o))

20 Mar, 2012

 

Wonderful place. Congrats from me also.

20 Mar, 2012

 

Wow some place, congrats to you both, looks as if you had a fun time.....

20 Mar, 2012

 

Lucky you Simbad....Looks brilliant, glad you had a good time...more pics please...:>)

20 Mar, 2012

 

Congratulations, and I'm glad you had a nice holiday. It looks an interesting place to go. Thanks for showing the cacti. They're amazing - seem to be growing out of a concrete block lol.....

21 Mar, 2012

 

Thankyou everyone for all the congratulations :-) it really was a great place, everyone was so friendly staff and guests alike, made lots of new friends including a couple who only lived 20 miles away!!!!!
Steragram would love to go again next year, I wish, suppose 26 years is a celebration too :-))))
Did you have lots of weddings in St Lucia Karen?, think we had at least one every day, there were gazebos dotted all over the hotel, think the best was on the top of a hill overlooking the sea,did get a picture, eldest daughter said 'why are you taking pictures of some random wedding',lol, and saw one couple marry on the beach, hope you've caught up with your washing ;-)
Good idea Lincslass, would love to have even a look round too see what its like.
Carole can't believe how everythings grown while we've been away, nice to come back to the lovely spring weather too :-)
Hywel they seemed to be growing in pure sand another couple of weeks and think they'd have been in full flower, huge things, thought of you when I saw them so had to get a piccy :-))
Bilbo loved those lilies they were everywhere edging all the paths, stunning, hope yours do well for you :-)

21 Mar, 2012

 

Lovely pictures and congrats. Glad you had a nice time

22 Mar, 2012

 

Lovely photos!

Don't suppose that you thought to nab any of the Hymenocallis bulbs did you?! I would certainly have had itchy fingers!

23 Mar, 2012

 

Looks a beautiful place:)

23 Mar, 2012

 

Thanks Rolliekins and Meanie :-), yes was very tempted by those Hymenocallis always too many gardeners about though ;-), I do have a couple of bulb offsets sent to me a couple of years ago by a friend but they're still really small think it'll be years before they flower.
It certainly was Nana d :-))

24 Mar, 2012

 

They tend to be asleep at 3am!!

24 Mar, 2012

 

Lol, there were quite a few fierce looking security guards though, all women, but wouldn't want to mess with them :-))

24 Mar, 2012

 

I think that might be my 60ieth destination,not on a hurry to get there though!!! beautiful,beats Lanzerote,I went befor xmas.

11 May, 2012

 

It was a wonderful place Tropicalbabe, my youngest daughter has just moved into her first house with her boyfriend, I've already got her married off and having her wedding here, just so we can go back,lol.
Lanzerote's lovely too, we've been there a few times :-)

11 May, 2012

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