An Irie Latino Drinking Solution

If you are having a stressful evening, go down to the Far Out Fish Hut (see earlier blog post) and order an Appleton Special Rum and Coke. The waitress will serve the Appleton Special in a glass filled with ice and she'll give you the Pepsi (instead of Coke) in a bottle. Now take your drink and find the bench and table nearest to the Caribbean Sea. Sit down and face the ocean. Don't try to forget your problems. Just relax and after a short while your problems will flow right out of you into the vast expanse of water and sky a few feet away. Believe it or not, just like everything else in the universe your problems need their freedom too, and the tropical evening offers them so much more than your tense muscles and over-worked brain. They will fly away in a minute, skipping along the waves, probably heading north to Cuba for salsa, cigars and a stroll through the streets of Santiago.

Once they have gone, this problematic world will seem a little different. You will realize the Caribbean breeze is offering a gentle massage if you're willing to accept it, the waves breaking on the reef are singing a song and that fly buzzing around the table isn't so annoying anymore. He's just playing a silly game. A cruise ship appears over the horizon and it occurs to you that people around the world are paying an arm and a leg to join you on the north coast of Jamaica.

The rum in that glass is crying out for attention. Add the Pepsi to the rum, take a sip and suddenly Timba music can be heard coming from Cuba ninety miles across the sea and it's in perfect sync with that good old Jamaican reggae. Now that's a sweet DJ Irie Latino blend, wouldn't you say? I think I'll have another rum, boys and girls. Don't worry about me. It's not a drinking problem. It's a drinking solution. Cheers!