Skittle

St Kitts is little. Went there the other day for a conference and there are like 35,000 people on the island, barely would count as a town in England, let alone a country. Their main industry was sugar, like almost everyone else in the Caribbean, but they couldn’t compete with the big guys like Guyana and Brazil with masses of space, so the government closed the industry down. So now they've less debt, but lots of empty fields and a fair bit of unemployment. It's all about the tourism now, which now obviously isn't such a good thing with the recession. In Barbados, they subsidise the sugar industry and lose millions each year on it, but are afraid to shut it down in case the empty fields put off tourists, which would be lose them much more.

Anyway, St Kitts was still pretty beautiful on the one day I managed to get out of the conference and see the country, despite some empty fields. Lots seemed like scenes out of films, which is definitely good thing- you've got jungle, fortresses, pirates…

(Indiana Jones and the temple of doom)

(Jurassic Park - random diplodocus in foreground)

(Pirates of the Caribbean)

(Another pirate)

( This place is actually called 'Picadilly Circus'! Amazing eh? Complete with Rasta on bike.)

(Empty sugar fields and a sign from the government to remind them that the country 'is working')