Category: Living with Locals
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Why I Don’t Cook In Jamaica
If you’ve followed me for any length of time you will have picked up on the fact that I don’t cook in Jamaica. There are several reasons for this: I don’t even cook in Canada simply because I don’t like cooking. I eat to survive, not because I flourish in a kitchen. This is…
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What’s In My Cup – Southern Hospitality in Jamaica
The Perfect Jamaican Sunday Brunch There’s a LOT to be said about the warm-hearted hospitality of Jamaicans all over the island. A couple Sundays ago I was finishing up a week on the north coast and had made arrangements to give a fellow travel blogger a ride to the airport for her flight home. She…
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Roast Breadfruit & Curry Chicken – A Breakfast Video
A Typical Morning in Montego Bay In case any of you wanted to know how glamorous mornings were when I was in Montego Bay for 2 months, here’s a video post showing a typical one. A typical morning went like so: Rise around 8:00am to thug music, come downstairs in my usual ugly morning mood,…
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“The Help” – Jamaican Style
You all know that movie called “The Help†right? If you don’t know it I suggest you see it because it’s one of the most powerful movies I’ve watched and if I was alive in those days I would have surely been that white girl. I’d be the one who’s more interested in knowing more…
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Steertown Sunsets & Street Watching
Many of you know I gave up my apartment in Ocho Rios after nine months of having my own “home” in Jamaica. The way it went down was quick and I didn’t know I was giving it up the last time I left the island so of course I kept it intact thinking I was…
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The Ghetto in Spanish Town, Jamaica
This post has more pictures than usual because I really wanted to show what kind of experience I had in the “ghetto”. When I got there it only took minutes for one of them to tell me I suit the ghetto. In a strange way I was honored. A couple friends of mine who work…
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A Few Days in Negril
Oniel’s House On my 2006 Sumfest trip I was all over the place. A few days in Ocho Rios, then Montego Bay, and I had considered hitting Negril for a few days too. As luck would have it I accidentally ran into a guy in Mobay that I knew from YEARS ago in Negril. As…
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How to Meet Jamaicans – Part 1
Hang with locals I called this post “part 1” in case any of the other crazy things I’ve done pop into my mind. I’ll be sure to post them if they do. But for now I can think of one or two ways to meet Jamaican locals that stand out in my head. Being a…