Lance Gibbs V The PM
After watching the show tonight all the memories of the boat trip between St Vincent and Grenada came flooding back!! If you get seasick you will know what I mean…if you don’t…you’ll think I’m soft.
The Spanish lady who owned the boat, to put it nicely, was a dead set shocker!!! She was so strict on how things had to be done that after a couple of hours one of the producers Jake who does not suffer fools had to have a word...explain to her that we were making a TV show and that we needed to use the entire boat, always with respect but we could not be made to feel like we were invading her space or continually asking for permission to do anything. Anyway, it all worked out. While I was throwing my guts up for a whole day!
Flintstone was Gravy’s and my guide for Granada, another great guy who could not have done anymore to make us feel like a million bucks. He basically lost everything in the Hurricane and his outlook on life could not have been brighter. That, I reckon, is true inspiration. He is normally a taxi driver and has just got into taking tourists around the island – look him up if you ever go to Granada, he’ll be in the queue at the airport waiting for tourists!!!
My Family in Granada – The Roberts – Brenda/Arial/Robert (Robert Roberts? Ed) – what sort of people invite a stranger in, make him feel so welcome and also allow a film crew all over their house at all times of the day? Special people who wanted to show how a normal West Indian family live! They even provided me with my own little bar – The Bar Under the House AKA The Headache bar We had a party every night in this little room!!!
Do you remember when I was having a chat with the PM at the cricket and Lance Gibbs came along and wanted to have a chat with him? After the cameras stopped rolling he had a heated debate with the PM about how embarrassed he was that the match had been 15 mins late in starting because of the sightscreens not working! He was going on about how they didn’t get it right for a match that was going live all around the world! It was so weird! To have a true legend of the game having a heated conversation with the PM in front of everyone…can u imagine Allan Border or Steve Waugh going up to our PM in the middle of a packed VIP area at the cricket here?
The Spanish lady who owned the boat, to put it nicely, was a dead set shocker!!! She was so strict on how things had to be done that after a couple of hours one of the producers Jake who does not suffer fools had to have a word...explain to her that we were making a TV show and that we needed to use the entire boat, always with respect but we could not be made to feel like we were invading her space or continually asking for permission to do anything. Anyway, it all worked out. While I was throwing my guts up for a whole day!
Flintstone was Gravy’s and my guide for Granada, another great guy who could not have done anymore to make us feel like a million bucks. He basically lost everything in the Hurricane and his outlook on life could not have been brighter. That, I reckon, is true inspiration. He is normally a taxi driver and has just got into taking tourists around the island – look him up if you ever go to Granada, he’ll be in the queue at the airport waiting for tourists!!!
My Family in Granada – The Roberts – Brenda/Arial/Robert (Robert Roberts? Ed) – what sort of people invite a stranger in, make him feel so welcome and also allow a film crew all over their house at all times of the day? Special people who wanted to show how a normal West Indian family live! They even provided me with my own little bar – The Bar Under the House AKA The Headache bar We had a party every night in this little room!!!
Do you remember when I was having a chat with the PM at the cricket and Lance Gibbs came along and wanted to have a chat with him? After the cameras stopped rolling he had a heated debate with the PM about how embarrassed he was that the match had been 15 mins late in starting because of the sightscreens not working! He was going on about how they didn’t get it right for a match that was going live all around the world! It was so weird! To have a true legend of the game having a heated conversation with the PM in front of everyone…can u imagine Allan Border or Steve Waugh going up to our PM in the middle of a packed VIP area at the cricket here?
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