Our residence in St.Vincent is more of a Guest House than a hotel, if truth be told. You have to find a member of staff if you need anything and that can take some time. When you do locate someone you are made to feel as though the act of fetching you a Coke from the bar is an inordinate favour and no little inconvenience.
Last night I called down to the front desk to ask for a burger. Good job it was before 8.30pm which is when the kitchen closes.
“You want it in your room?”
“Yes please, if that’s OK?”
“Well, I a likkel busy now…ya can com an gettit from da kitchen.”
“Oh…OK, thank you. I’ll be down in 10 minutes.”
As with all small (‘boutique’ is just a fancy word for small) hotels on the island it sits right on the beach. As in centimetres away, not metres. The ocean is cool, the water is clear and the sand is soft. And there are palm trees and friendly Rastas on the beach selling marijuana at very reasonable rates. Apparently.
Breakfast is an important meal for a cricket team which faces the prospect of spending seven hours a day on its feet under a hot sun. But here, instead of the plentiful buffet which had greeted us each morning in Trinidad and Guyana, everyone had to place their order individually. And everything was cooked individually, and very slowly! The team bus left 25 minutes later than planned and the latecomers had to make do with toast and jam.
But nobody is complaining. It’s simply not in the nature of this Zimbabwe team which remains modest and humble but does not lack ambition. As Tatenda Taibu said in a team meeting a couple of days ago, “We used to think that being Zimbabwean meant we had to take a backward step but it does not. We can still be respectful without having to back away from anybody.”
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