Tobago - Doctors orders you understand.....

When Philippa and I were deciding where to go for Easter - a destination for easing a broken foot back to health wasn't a deciding factor. We were weighing up cost, temperature, colour of ocean, price of local beer - the usuals. Tobago won this competiton - seeing off St Lucia and Antigua. I dare say their time will come.

So I'd better get straight into ' foot chat' - after a wonderful and remarkably drama free few weeks in Burma - disaster struck in my actual home. I'm still not entirely sure how I ended up breaking my foot while trying to get up off the sofa to get a cup of tea but break it did. It's just a shame it took me two flights of stairs up to bed, a walk to the bus stop to get to the hospital and a good additional bit of walking thinking ' it'll just be a sprain' until I found out I'd been walking on a very broken right foot. Common footballing injury - not that it's relevant in my case. So I spent the remainder of January, February and a good part of March modelling a very attractive black foot and black boot to match. The car didn't get driven, I didn't go on any city breaks, my social life crashed and.....it's fair to say I couldn't wait to get back to normal.

So whilst the doctor didn't exactly prescribe a week in the Caribbean for rehab - that's how I'm justifying it. You will be pleased to hear things have turned out well - the island is small but pretty, the ocean as turquoise as you would expect and the locals are the complete opposite of my fellow Londoner's in winter. 

The first foot rehab exercise was a 6.30am power walk along the coast- the three of us managed this 6 out of the 7 days ( the Christmas present Fitbit is most confused with this recent 'action'). The second was daily swims in a combo of Ocean / Pool - all of which passed uneventfully. The final test was a nighttime sea kayaking trip searching for glow in the dark plankton. I think it probably helped that the locations for the beach based activities were some of the most incredible beaches I've ever been to. Pigeon Point will hopefully never leave the memory bank,

I'm now back - foot back to health and ready to explore. Thank the Caribbean sunshine for that!

We stayed: Bacolet Beach Club. A deal with flights/ 7 nights B&B was £700. Lovely rooms, quiet spot, private beach

We sunbathed: the wonderful Pidgeon Point is about a 30 minute taxi ride, there is a charge to get into what they call a marine park but god it's so worth it - the whitest sand the most turquoise of oceans

We ate: in Scarborough try the Blue Crab - lovely service and good, also Ciao Cafe does incredible wood fired pizza's. We avoided the local delicacy of cow heel soup...

We sailed: With Caribbean Girl, about £70 for a day on a gorgeous Catamaran with as many bottles of Carib/ run cocktails you can manage. Lovely crew. 

We Kayaked: with Duane at SUP paddle boarding, as it turned out it was too rough for paddle boarding but his night time bio luminescence trip is awesome, you kayak about 6km from Pidgeon point and back going via a lagoon to find the plankton which glow when you move them. Kayaking at night with the stars above you is pretty special. £40.