Thanks for the Congrats and thanks for reading!!Originally Posted by lovenegril
Thanks for the Congrats and thanks for reading!!
Back to the sunset, the PV complex has a great little spot where there are a couple little natural "rock pools" that people suntan around during the day and every evening a large group gathers there for sunset. Usually there are a around 12-20 people. Now this first night we were the "newbies" and had not yet met anyone, but we were told by the owners to make sure to head down there. We kinda felt like outcasts but in little to know time one of the folks made refrence to Canadian Football team jersey I was wearing and next thing you know we are pulled into the group and making new friends. We are offereed brownies, "not the special ones toinight" and I think a glass of wine from one other couple. We decline and thank them all, the party goes on for about an hour after sunset and most couplel are making dinner plans and plans on where they will be headed. At this time I am exhausted but not yet ready for bed! We grab a six pack outta the freezer and the cooler, throw in some ice and decide we are gonna head out and explore the quiet grounds. Tomorrow is our first whole day in Negril and I wanna have my bearings, we have not yet even found the beach and I know that is on the wifes agenda. We wander around in the dark, find the regular beach, keep wandering and next we find the Au natural beach that borders Hedo. This is where we meet the head of night Security, a young man named Foyan who turns out to be a really nice you guy with a big heart as big as his smile. Funny thing as I am typing this I just recieved a text from Foyan seeing how we are doing! We finish our exploratory walk and retire to the patio to finish off a couple more stripes and hit the hay. Day one has been a long day, it started almost 40 hours ago when we woke up the day after the wedding, we have only had about 3-4 hours of sleep since then and we are beat! Tomorrow will be a new adventure and we cannot wait! Goodnight all!!!!
Tuesday morning comes and we roll outta bed, finally a night with more than 3-4 hours of sleep. I feel human finally and am ready to venture out and see what Negril has to offer today, but first must have morning coffee! Brew a pot, crack the Rum Cream and the day is off to a really great start. Since we had bought groceries we decided to have a good breakfast before we go out walking, we have a big Breakfast (Streaky Bacon, Eggs, Toast, more coffe and even more Rum Cream), on the patio patio of course just taking in the great view. We get dressed, grab a couple of Tig's from the fridge, a couple of water and head out to find our way to Long bay! We wander aimlessly until we are approached by a nice older lady asking if we are lost, we bashfully say we want to walk the beach she says to follow her, away we go. She takes out to the Au Natural beach and points us over to Hedo and says straight through there! Now I am far from a prude and my wife is a little more reserved than I am, but I really must say no showering after a hockey game or after a workout at the gym could prepare me for all the casual nakedness we walked through!!!LOL!!!!My wife was almost hyperventelating and had a deathgrip on my hand, Between people bending over to pick up packages of smoke, or the eyefull's of gravity over time effected flesh she was on the verge of meltdown! Later we find out it was during a particular lifestyles week, so there was even more open affection day or night and more nakedness than usual, either way it provided a good chuckle to everyone who heard the story for quite sometime when I would describe the look on her face, LOL!!! We wander the beach, hitting stands, stores you name it. Grab a dink here then there and so one down the beach. It seems like no time has past and it is already lunchtime, I am hungr and lightheaded from the stripes, I look at my Negril map and realize we have only made it about 2-2.5 Km. We stop at Foote Prints in the sand and grab lunch, it was good but not memorable so I cannot say really what we had. We chill out with a couple more stripes and decide we will head back to the Condo to take in a couple hours of beachtime and maybe do a little snorkling, its about 2pm and we have a few hours to kill before supper at Ivan's. This is the one I had planned as a special dinner for my wife and I and she was super excited. I had played it down a bit cause I stillwanted some WOW factor when we arrive and take our seat, I had requested the"nicest" table they had as it was our Honeymoon and they did not dissapoint! We overlooked the cove just above the hotub, was a great night, great food, great view, and great service! I had the Seafood pasta, and my wife had steak and mashed Potatoe, we also shared a couple of appatizers. Here's some photo's!!!
View
Sunset
Appy's
Dinners!
mmm looks delish! great report looking forward to more
Thanks for reading Beebeluv! It's like reliving the trip in my mind!!!! Making me long for my next trip thank goodness I am at about 50-51 days and I will be home!!!
OMG, does that look good!!! Loving your report! The part regarding the walk through Hedo cracked me up!! We took the stroll through many years ago when out on our adventure of walking the entire beach. OMG, I feel ya!. They were having an annual July 4th parade with a fully dressed band, but followed by undressed group of Hedo guests. It was rather entertaining though....they used body paint on many strategic area's with stars and stripes etc. This particular dude had his stuff painted the traditional red, white and with the added touch of "blue balls" if you get my drift! LOL
To each his own however, if one is comfortable...go for it...but, for me, I'll keep this old stuff covered. Carry on.....I am so enjoying your report!!! Thanks......
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Sooooooo, where did I leave off? Ivan's!!! We finish up our dinner, drink's and vino and ask for the bill. I must say that it was right around $100 plus tip so we were really impressed, off to the gate to catch our ride home. Now something to note here, they supplied us with one way transportation to the restaurant, now before we hopped in I didn't really look at the plate. However when we jumped out I was able to grab a look and I noticed that the ride they supplied was from a white plated car, we were also urged to use him for our return ride at our cost. We did, and arived without event, he did make a pitstop for me to pic up some stripes, and smokes along the way. While I ran into the store, Mike ur driver pulled out his sales speech on my wife for his Subway Sandwich shop! My wife declined as she doesn't partake but suggested that I do once in awhile, I was soon back in the car and we were on our way to PV! Another unevenful ride and we are back at the condo, now at this time I must say that I was already planning another trip to the Cambio the next morning for additional funds for the One Love Pub crawl, and dinner that next night as well so against my better judgment I asked him for a ride the next day. He accepted and he told me to call him when I was ready to roll. We spent that evening listening to the light wave action and relaxing on the patio for a few hours before calling it a night! Another great day in JA! Tomorrow, The Pub Crawl!!!!!!!!!
Well, its slow at work today so I may as well start on Wednesday! We awake around7:30-8 Am, get the coffee brewing and grab the Rum Cream and head for the patio,throw some bread in the toaster and pour my first cup of coffee, add the rum cream and wait for my toast. Its looking like another beautiful day in JA!! Light breakfast done, pot of coffee done and weare planning to head for the beach, We decide to lay low today cause at about 2 PM the One Love Bus is to pick us up for our much anticipated Pub Crawl, before I head for the beach I duck out and call the driver for a trip to the Cambio while my wife gets ready. Now, I know this is no advised and I guess in looking back I may have been lucky but Mike (the guy from the previous night in the white plate car) was a good guy and I had no issues, however the previous Eve, he had mentioned the sale of some cold cuts to my wife and she had declined so after the Cambio and another quick Stripe Stop we are headed back to PV and he tells me, "I got you a lil treat for you in your smoke pack" I check it out and he has deposited 2 massive Double Meat Subs with all the fixins in there for me and he cannot close the package, good thing it was a Canadian smoke package cause they are A LOT bigger and they were kinda protected from being crushed, I think he asked me for $1000J and I was happy to oblige as that was more than enough for my once and a blue moon Sub cravings.He drops me off back at the Condo, I tuck my Subs away for later and head to the beach with a 6 pack, my beach chair,snorkel set and a book. I still have a little over 3 hours to kill before Lenbert will pick us up for the Pub Crawl and figure a swim/snorkel will kill a bit of that. The snorkeling around PV is excellent as BGN is right around the corner and most of the big resorts around the area bring people to the point to snorkel for good reason, the there is lots of fish life and coral all around there, I saw rays, eels, tons of different tropical fish, Barracuda and much much more! we killed the sixerand I read for a bit after the swim then head up for a quick shower, we only have about a half hour before Lenbert is to be there to pick us up and the debauchery is to start!!! I'll finish that up later, gotta get ready for the company Xmas party! Ciao for now!!!
We have now gotten ready for the Pub Crawl to start and have decided that we would walk out to the street in front of Hedo and BGN so that Lenbert would not have to turn around up at the Point Village gate, so we grab a couple of Wata for the walk and our wait. I think it was about a 15 minute wait and the bus was there to pick up up and away we went, it was a little disorganized at the start as we had to double back a couple times to pick up people who had been forgotten but eventually we were all picked up and at the first bar, it was a really busy Pub Crawl and I think there was actually 2 groups of people. Lenbert was taking a busload ahead to the next place, then doubling back and grabbing another busload and so and so forth. Made for quite a fun day as there was a real crowd at each bar at times!! I only have a handful of pictures, the following one being about the best one.
One love pub crawl, taken on the roof at Swordfish
The places we hit were as follows
1)Mi Yard
2) Some little place across the road with an all wood interior, real small with a great view that needed a little TLC and cleaning up to make it appreciable but the beer were cold and cheap
3)Swordfish- Beautiful rooftop bar, cold beer and a wonderful view!!! We'll be stopping there again in 2013
4)C&D country bar- a nice little spot with no Lie about 10 Square feet of Texas, the beer was very cold, and the smiling faces that were behind the bar were very welcoming. Special brownie available on request in the back!
Now the rest of them I am not sure of the order but I do remember all the names, The lack of being able to remember the order has ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING to do with number of Red Stripes at each of the first 4 places or the monster Sub that I was asked to partake in.
the rest were
5) Tayon's - was a great little roadside bar, Loud music, cold beer and strong drinks!!
6) Pee Wee's-Another great cliffside place with awesome views of the water and Blue Cave Castle
7)No Limit Bar- Tiny Little raodside bar that was probablt my favorite, just cause of the owers and bartenders were so friendly and welcoming
8) Sir D's Firewater-Best View!!
The whole Pub Crawl was a great time and frankly one of funest ways to explore the west end pub's with a great assortment of people from all over. I still keep in touch with a couple of folks from that afternoon, and will probably partake in another pubcrawl with at least a couple next time we are in Negril in January 2013.
After the Pub Crawl we were SUPER hungry and could not wait to eat, we had kinda decided on Pizza and were thinking we would check out Ciao Jamaica. Now I cannot for the life of me remember what made us decide on that, I think it was a report on TA but anyways that doesn't matter!! We arrived back at PV at about 8-8:30 and called Ciao, we decided on the Jerk Chicken XL size pizza made the order and the wait was on. In retrospect it would have been a better idea to have just had Lenbert drop us off there on the way back to the condo and either eat there or catch a cab back with our pizza, as it was more than a wait! The 12-14 beer I had during the pub crawl and the numerous drinks my wife had, had made the wait excruciating, that and it was probably the longest I had ever waited for a pizza had me chomping at the bit!!!! It finally arrived just before I started chewing on a falled palm branch just to stop the hunger pangs, and MAN was it worth the wait!!!! I am sorry to say I do not have a picture to post of that pizza caus ehalf of it was gone as soon as the box was opened, but it was AWESOME!!!!!!! If you want a great pie, check it out it is well worth it. Just don't be hungry when you order
Tomorrow, second walk through Hedo, Lunch at Our Pastime, Beachwalk, Supper at Kuyaba
Friday, Wifes wedding gift two tickets to The Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival (Celine Dion her FAVORITE)
Saturday-Beach, Beach walk, Snorkel, Seastar Buffet and show
Sunday- Inter airlink flight to Montego Bay to begin Week Two at Breezes Runaway Bay
Last edited by walleyed99; 11-19-2012 at 03:11 PM.
Thanks for bringing us along. Let us know how the flight goes.
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