WEDNESDAY

White silk top - via Mum from Apostrophe (too posh for me to have purchased!)
Chinese bed jacket - charity shop
Batik print trousers - from hols in Antigua
Black tipped wedges - thrifted
Necklace - Isabel Marant
Belt - Topshop

Halloumi Veg Medley Salad
No particular rhyme or reason to this lunch apart from  thought the flavours went well and they were all in my fridge to use up. So grilled halloumi, lightly pickled fennel, carrots and spring onion, some wild rice, spinach leaves and toasted cashew nuts - a lot going on but worked, salty cheese, pang from pickled veg and nuttiness from the cashews.

Antigua

Second stop was Antigua, where food is full of plantain and surf n turf spiced stew pots and the colours were so vivid it was like watching the Wizard of Oz (tropical version) for the first time! We stayed at the very colonial feeling Carlisle Bay, white washed shuttered rooms and afternoon tea at the beach...

 

Carlisle Bay beach
Daily choice of eggs, florentine today
Conch and shrimp fritters
Afternoon tea on the beach
Aromatic goat curry with roti and peppery mango chutney
Local lizard on our balcony
Dries sunnies - spiced veg stew
Caribbean rum punch and freshly grated nutmeg - 85% rum 15% juice!
banana palm fan - tricolour fruit kebab
coi karp and topped scones
turquoise swimming pool ripples