I hate to be back from holiday. First - you are not there anymore, second you have to start working straight away. 

We arrived back on Thursday morning last week and started to work on Friday morning. Even tho weekend followed but I began my oncall process ( I need to cover my colleague as he is going on a week holiday - moving) so it wasn't entirely free for me.

But anyway, the holiday was awesome. We visited a "third-world country" first time in our life, visited inhabited tropical island, swam and snorkeled with dolphins, sharks, stingrays. Fed fish under water, saw typical countryside, visited cigar factory.

We stayed in a 5 star all inclusive resort, which was wonderful, the variety of drinks and food was incredible, the beach was great, so it was a really pleasant experience.

However the country itself did not get our love. Because it is all about the MONEY. Dominicans were taught to BEG for money in every way its possible. Tips everywhere, additional charges one excursions everywhere, so at the end we became fed up with this approach.

Imagine, when you pay $380 for dolphin encounter and at the end they ask you to pay another $60 for the DVD of the event. To pay tip to the transfer bus driver which was already included in the price and so on. So even tho it was a fantastic journey for us and a wonderful time, but I was happy to come back to the UK. Even on the way to the plane on the airport, a band was playing music and expecting to get money for it. (How can a band get on the runway and play music next to the airplanes I do not understand)

I don't regret at all we spend so much on this holiday, because these experiences made up for it. Imagine when you are in the crystal clear Caribbean sea and wherever you look under water, there are 3-4 meter long sharks around. Fantastic. Imagine when you are holding a stringray (size of a table) in your hand and minutes later you realize it wasn't the biggest one in the water. (saw a giant Stingray with a 2m diameter)

So all of these memories made me forget about the down side of this trip, but enough of the talk, check out the pictures ....