Orchids in Barbados

Colourful orchids from Orchid World in St George

and fruit stamps of Barbados! 

Thank you Tom for the beautiful Pelican on the card :D

Really enjoying your trip around the Caribbean!

Sent: 28 November 2014   Received: 23 December 2014   Travelled: 25 days

Barbados #2

The largest carnival-like cultural event that takes place on the island is the Crop Over festival. As in many other Caribbean and Latin American countries, Crop Over is an important event for many people on the island, as well as the thousands of tourists that flock to there to participate in the annual events. The festival includes musical competitions and other traditional activities, and features the majority of the island's homegrown calypso and soca music for the year. The male and female Barbadians who harvested the most sugarcane are crowned as the King and Queen of the crop.Crop Over gets under way at the beginning of July and ends with the costumed parade on Kadooment Day, held on the first Monday of August.

Thanks to Tom for this beautiful island card from Barbados!

Sent: 15 November 2014   Received: 12 December 2014   Travelled: 27 days

The first from Barbados

Barbados is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles.It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about 168 kilometres (104 mi) east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and 400 kilometres (250 mi) north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.

Thank you Monika for this postcard! My 144th country in my collection.

Sent: 25 August 2014   Received: 15 Ocotober 2014   Travelled: 51 days