Tobago - An island of sunshine, beaches and cocktails!

Everyone said that Tobago was too far to go for a week, and in one way they were right, I didn’t want to come home after a week! But it wasn’t too far to go for a week of rest and relaxation, and much needed sunshine at October half term.

After a couple of days reading books by the pool, we got itchy feet and booked an island safari in an old open top land rover. We bumped along the coast line, bounced through luscious rainforest, scrambled up mountain paths and explored secret beaches (now a holiday maker’s paradise but many years ago bloody battle fields). We stopped for a super lunch at Gemma’s treetop restaurant, where the views really are of paradise.

The free hotel shuttle bus was great to get to Pigeon Point beach to spend time swimming, snorkelling and sun bathing. We stopped relaxing for long enough to eat goat curry for lunch at a very local beach restaurant, followed by a Pina Colada on the beach served in a coconut!

Sunny Scarborough, the capital, lives up to the name... unlike the Yorkshire version! The market was well worth a visit for scrummy street food snacks, as well as lots of interesting curry mixes to bring home. We walked a couple of miles out of Scarborough for lunch and a swim at the beach bar at Bacolet Bay.... more beautiful views and cocktails!

Most mornings we got up early and stalked the ‘turtle guy’ who was checking the turtle nests on the hotel beach, we hoped to see baby turtles heading to the sea but that happened the day we had a lie in!

Tobago seems to have everything – diving, beaches, good food, a rain forest and lovely people. We’ll go back, and not just for the baby turtles.