bridgetown
We had to go to Bridgetown on our first full day in Barbados in order to get a marriage certificate from the Ministry Of Home Affairs and took the opportunity to have a quick look around.


Looking down Broad Street, the main street in Bridgetown. Most of the shops cater to the tourist duty-free market.


A catamaran harboured on the Careenage with the Parliament Buildings in the background. The Careenage is a natural narrow inlet which was used as a safe haven to maintain trading ships, including careening them - cleaning and repainting the hulls.


Tigger on Chamberlain Bridge, which crosses the Careenage, being admired as usual though neither of us realised until we saw the photo. I don't think the Bajans had run across a London trance chick before. :)


Market stalls near the Cheapside bus station.


The edge of the bus station. We were going to catch a bus back but since the schools had just finished for the day, all the buses were full. The schools have distinctive uniforms, hence the colour-coordinated girls (who turned up as I was ready to take the photo and weren't the main object - honest).


Outside ...


... and inside the taxi on the way back.
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