The prospect of visiting a country for two weeks seems like you have all the time in the world until the reality that your time there is up hits you hard. After what seemed like decades of planning, my trip to Trinidad and Tobago finally materialised. Leaving Botswana on July 12, 2013, just a day after my 25th birthday I was not mentally or physically prepared for the 16-hour connecting flight from Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport to New York's JFK International Airport. Despite it taking forever to arrive, I survived and connected with Caribbean Airlines on a five-hour trip to my final destination, Trinidad and Tobago's capital city of Port of Spain.Upon arriving in the early hours of Sunday morning, the weather welcomed me in true Caribbean style with its heat and moist atmosphere. That alone was enough to give me the tropical feel and get me ready for a whole two weeks of no harsh weather. Trinidad boasts of the same humid weather throughout the year.
Mostly it's sunny but the rain constantly falls, only for it to go back to normal within minutes with some sunshine.Throughout my two-week stay in the Caribbean country, I achieved my objective of having fun. A food lover, the obvious thing was to start with trying out the different dishes that are available. I started with the popular Indian dish called Doubles which is made of two flat fried roti-like bread, filled with curried peas, mango, coconut, cucumber and pepper sauce. I got to observe that locals are fanatic about Doubles and there are always long queues at the outlets. On top of the Doubles I also got to try out another famous Greek dish called Gyro, which is roasted meat, served on pita bread with tomato, onion, sauce and lettuce. The dish can be served with only one type of meat or one has a choice to mix the meats which are beef, lamb and chicken depending on how much you are willing to spend because the more meat, the more money you pay.
