Keep it coming!
Keep it coming!
The Villa is perfect for a romantic getaway. Going to post about that next.Originally Posted by booger
The rest of the drive was pretty uneventful. There are some steep roads right as you are getting to Port Antonio. I dont have an good pictures on my phone of this, but the Blue Mountains are HUGE! In reality they are the same height as some of the taller Appalachian mountains, but they seem so much bigger since you are seeing them in the distance from the vantage point of basically sea level. In the states you are seeing the Appalachians from well above sea level.
Port Antonio seemed very interesting when we drove through. It is really a beautiful town. A bit run down in some places, but there's some pretty cool architecture. Very busy in the market area.
Port Antonio is famous for being a major exporter of Bananas.
As you head out to the east of PA, you start seeing some very Majestic buildings.
We finally get to our destination. Norse Point Villa. Even with getting lost. We made the Negril to Norse Point trip in under 5 hours. It was not bad at all.
We pull up to a sign, that has our Villa's name on it. There's just a Seawall. Jackie was confused. I said "Look over the wall".
Over the wall about 30 steep steps was our home for the next 5 nights. On the porch was Verona. Our maid/chef.
(The deal with Verona - her fee was 30 dollars a day on top of the 300 a night we paid for the villa. She would cook whatever we wanted for 2 meals a day. Do our grocery shopping if we needed. We chose breakfast and dinner most days).
Verona had a feast on the stove warming up as we arrived to this beautiful 1BR Villa. The villa had doors that opened the whole water facing side of the building to the crystal clear blue water, and monkey island. The villa had 1.5 Baths, a kitchen, Laundry machine. A dock with kayaks. It was great.
We chowed on dinner. Verona left us for the night, saying breakfast would be served around 9. After dinner we went to check out the bedroom. The next thing I realize. My 8:15am alarm was going off.. I had slept for 14 hours.
Last edited by Flipadelphia26; 06-24-2015 at 08:44 AM.
LOL. Rob said "Stay to the left, no matter what" So thats what we did. All the way up a narrow road to the top of the hill, where people were looking at us, and they knew we were lost. It was all good though. Worth the experience!
it's beautiful!!!
Gorgeous! (Drooling)
Villa = WOW!!!
"Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person."
—Jeremy Roenick
Congrats Flip! Lovin the report so fah
Thanks everyone
We woke up early. Verona had breakfast ready to go, out on the table by 9:00. scrambled eggs, lots of fruit, fresh squeezed OJ and toast. We ate and decided that we would kayak to blue lagoon. About 5 minutes away. Blue Lagoon is 200+ feet deep and believed to have been an old volcano caldera. There is a fresh water spring somewhere in it, and it makes for a cool and refreshing mix of fresh and sea water.
We paddled around for a bit, and then decided to paddle out to monkey island. Directly across from our villa. There we met a gentleman and his family. We got to talking and it turns out that he owns Chukka tours and has a house just down from the place we were staying. Very nice guys. Jamaican from kingston. White dude.
After an hour or so, I told Jackie we needed to get lunch.
We went to villa, and got in the car. I drove us out to Boston. There we had some excellent Jerk Chicken at Mickey's.
After that we went down to the beach. It was awesome. The waves were good and there were plenty of Jamaican surfers out there. We spent a couple hours, had a few drinks. Decided to go take a drive into Port Antonio. When we got to PA, I remember seeing some marina pics that VI had posted. Decided to go there. Hung out at the bar for a bit. I sampled some Cuban rum. Jackie had a very big drink.
After that we decided to find a store for some snacks and some rum for the place. We stop at a local market on Folly Road. 6 pck of beer. Snacks, bottle of white rum. 1600 J.
Next door I heard one of my alltime favorite songs "Guess who's coming to dinner". It happened to be a bar. So we dropped in 2 cold red stripes for $240J. It was right on the water. Perfect. After some small talk with a few locals, we decided to head back for dinner and some rum.
We had our fill of dinner and rum and called it a night at about 8pm :-P
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