03-13-2015, 07:56 AM
Pauline - I enjoy my "real" experiences in Jamaica. As you know I do not stay at an AI, I haven't been to Ricks in many years but I also don't go where the gut or my local friends advise I don't - like Lime Tree Lane. My Jamaican neighbors don't go up that lane either. Every town has its "bad" area. Back in the day Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn was a place that if you didn't "belong" there you didn't venture there. In San Francisco, that would be the Potrero Hill projects.
Can you imagine, a tourist visiting San Francisco wanting a "real" experience going up into the PH Projects? They would be subjected to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They can enjoy just as real an experience by visiting neighborhoods in the city such as the Haight-Ashbury. History and residents all in one. Sure, you'll step over a few homeless kids but its a city after all (grimace).
If I can avoid sticky situations and bad vibes in bad areas anywhere, specifically in Negril I do and I'm not what I consider an "average" tourist. I was warned about Lime Tree Lane on my second or third trip in the early 90's. I have no business there, therefore I do not go there.
I have found myself in areas or places where things were not right in my gut. I left.
The chance of a tourist being caught up in a gangland shooting are slim to none as long as that tourist listens to their gut and the locals around them and stay out of dicey areas and situations. Some love that drama but there's other "real" experiences to have outside of a resort and Ricks without feeling the danger.
Can you imagine, a tourist visiting San Francisco wanting a "real" experience going up into the PH Projects? They would be subjected to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They can enjoy just as real an experience by visiting neighborhoods in the city such as the Haight-Ashbury. History and residents all in one. Sure, you'll step over a few homeless kids but its a city after all (grimace).
If I can avoid sticky situations and bad vibes in bad areas anywhere, specifically in Negril I do and I'm not what I consider an "average" tourist. I was warned about Lime Tree Lane on my second or third trip in the early 90's. I have no business there, therefore I do not go there.
I have found myself in areas or places where things were not right in my gut. I left.
The chance of a tourist being caught up in a gangland shooting are slim to none as long as that tourist listens to their gut and the locals around them and stay out of dicey areas and situations. Some love that drama but there's other "real" experiences to have outside of a resort and Ricks without feeling the danger.
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
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