Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

I have never been to South America so I was excited to go to the island Trinidad (in North America) since it's just 11 km off the coast from Venezuela, so I would be able to see it in the horizon with my own eyes.  I was so close to being in South America but instead my friend Christofer and I would go up north again with our cruise ship, after our visit to one of the 23 islands that make up Trinidad And Tobago. The capital that we visited was called Port Of Spain oddly enough, maybe they should have renamed it since Spain hasn't been in charge of the country since 1797. I had three things on my to do-list; I was gonna drink coconut straight from the fruit, dance limbo since it's invented on the island and smoke a cigar, even though I despise tobacco. The name Tobago probably stem from the second biggest island in the country being shaped like a cigar. Well I failed everything except for the limbo part. Improvised limbo dancing under a tree We went ...

My friend Christofer and I arrived with a cruise ship at one of the 32 islands that make up Saint Vincent And The Grenadines. The control over the country has been shifted several times between Britain and France since the 1700s, and 1979 Saint Vincent And The Grenadines was the last of the Windward Islands (the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies) to become independent. English is still the official language though. We arrived at the main island Saint Vincent and the capital of Kingstown, not to be confused with Kingston, the capital at Jamaica, where I wished I was instead. Especially when we went off the cruise ship and expected the sunny Caribbean weather and instead got a hard rain in our face and gray skies. Christofer wanted to turn around before we even hit the markets in the city center, but I convinced him to keep on going while I bought an overpriced umbrella. Special price for dumb tourists, but at the same time I thought they...

Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman. It was named by the French, who were the island's first European settlers. Great Britain and France then fought about the right to the country because of the sugar farms, and it changed ownership 14 times. The harbour of the capital Castries was protected by a system of 60 surrounding forts. Nowadays when Saint Lucia has gotten its independence it has not even got a regular military force since they have such good connections to all other countries, kind of ironic.  My friend Christofer and I arrived with a cruise ship to the harbour of Castries and nowadays they didn't shoot at us at our arrival. Instead they were so kind that they took us out for a catamaran sailing down the west coast, and it looked amazing even though the weather was a bit unsteady. The volcanic island is more mountainous than most Caribbean islands and it was completely green of all the palm trees and other greenery. Colourful houses p...

Saint Kitts was home to the first British and French colonies in the Caribbean, and has also been titled "The Mother Colony of the West Indies". When my friend Christofer and I approached the capital Basseterre on a cruise ship I thought the island had a feeling of Scotland to it, watching it from a distance. The mountains made it look like a greener and sunnier version of the northern parts of Great Britain, and English is even the official language still. The country consists of two volcanic islands that are separated by a three kilometer strait called The Narrows. It's supposed to be the land of beautiful waters, but the first thing we noticed was that the sea didn't look as appealing as it had been on the previous islands we had visited in the Caribbean. So we decided to walk a short distance to a luxurious pool area instead, called Palms Court Gardens. On our way we saw some pelicans and some skinny birds with long legs we had never seen before, so we decided ...