{"id":55,"date":"2008-05-01T23:50:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T23:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peter.vittrup.dk\/?p=55"},"modified":"2023-02-25T21:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:14:47","slug":"the-caribbean-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/2008\/05\/01\/the-caribbean-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caribbean New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is late in the evening and I am sitting at my balcony (!!) at the &#8220;The Copper Kettle&#8221; hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad. A generator is running wildly to the left of me, but I have now plugged Tina Dickow in my ears &#8211; enjoying the Caribbean all-day heat.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image\" title=\"IMG_0419\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21924312@N08\/2459920872\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2374\/2459920872_8ffbb53a5b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The taxi driver taking me from the airport called this city the Caribbean New York, proudly stating that &#8220;we have almost everything here&#8221;. And apparently he was right. Port of Spain is a multicultural place where dressed up businessmen meets cool-colored dreadlock boys. Calypso\/reggae music is hammering from cars while <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/petervittrup\/2459071745\/\">wannabe-western coffee shops<\/a> serves latte and iceblends. My best choice today &#8211; by the way &#8211; was having one of these (caramel flavored icecoffee) in the sweaty mid-day heat \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>By now you might have noticed, that the capital of Trinidad is not paradise on earth. Port of Spain is an industrial concrete place with traffic chaos, and the city doesn&#8217;t nearly hold the same poetic charm as Havana, Cuba (the only other place I visited in Caribbean.) At least that is my first impression, though I have a feeling there is much more to the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is late in the evening and I am sitting at my balcony (!!) at the &#8220;The Copper Kettle&#8221; hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad. A generator is running wildly to the left of me, but I have now plugged Tina Dickow in my ears &#8211; enjoying the Caribbean all-day heat. The taxi driver taking &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/2008\/05\/01\/the-caribbean-new-york\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Caribbean New York<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[67,66,65],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trinidadtobago","tag-balcony","tag-coffee","tag-heat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}