A tale of two pretties

Ok, the following photos are an entirely unfair representation of two countries. My temperamental camera, which I have now replaced (huge relief), decided that it liked St Lucia but hated Trinidad. Also, I spent most of the time in Trinidad in its capital city (5 points if you know what that is without cheating), whereas in St Lucia we stayed by a picturesque harbor. So apologies in advance to Trinidad.

I’m now in a Trinidad in this strange hotel that has a kind of luxury/dormitory thing going on. There is this gorgeous swimming pool with palm trees in the courtyard, but then the furniture in the rooms looks like it’s been assembled from Argos in the 1970s and the blinds are warped like prison bars after an escape. Then there are the room's giant windows overlooking the courtyard, giving a lovely view for you, but also for everyone else in the courtyard of your room. No wonder someone tried to escape out of the blinds. A kind of luxury panopticon, with lovely council flat type walkways joining the rooms together. Anyway, look forward to better quality photos in future and no more pink distortions.
(Lovely st Lucia - where our taxi driver had in fact given a lift to Amy Winehouse during her stay)

(Still so lovely. And slightly frenchy too - maybe they left their aesthetic mark on the place)

(Trinidad from a hill in pink mist courtesy of my camera)

(Trinidad in fact has quite a high crime rate, and the highest kidnappings per capita last year, but it does not have cars with fangs as my camera suggests)

(The view from the windscreen on the way to the airport...)