{"id":7472,"date":"2023-08-29T08:53:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2023-08-29T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:54:22","slug":"finding-fresh-fish-and-smiles-in-barbados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/finding-fresh-fish-and-smiles-in-barbados\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Fresh Fish and Smiles in Barbados"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Visiting the fish market yesterday for Flying Fish it was lovely hearing the vendors chatting away with a visitor who was leaving the island but just had to stop in for some fresh snapper to cook up for their final lunch in Barbados.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As they enquired if she&#8217;d enjoyed her visit, offered up suggestions for preparing the snapper, and wished her safe travels back to the UK I was reminded of what makes Barbados such a special place to live and visit. <strong>The people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-fish-sign-775x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-fish-sign-775x1024.png 775w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-fish-sign-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-fish-sign-768x1015.png 768w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-fish-sign.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe her sign says it all\u2026 smiles, love and thanks are all free. Stop in at Ms. Young at the Paynes Bay Fish Market\u2026 for fresh fish and smiles &#x1f642;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh and the beach view wasn&#8217;t too shabby either! And the flying fish were delicious! What a wonderful day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/paynes-bay-beach-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/paynes-bay-beach-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/paynes-bay-beach-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/paynes-bay-beach-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/paynes-bay-beach.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they enquired if she&#8217;d enjoyed her visit, offered up suggestions for preparing the snapper, and wished her safe travels back to the UK I was reminded of what makes Barbados such a special place to live and visit. The people.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}