An interesting 48-hour period began with a quick chute along the main highway, dubbed Highway 2000 (as the then Government had initially intended to unveil it in that year; I think it actually opened about four or five years later) outside of Kingston and into the central countryside. After about 20 minutes, we exited the tollway and came upon - what else - a road side tavern, named noble's Bar & Restaurant, complete with international wine selection and Grey Goose vodka ( who says country folk have no taste for the finer things?) I opted for Boom! a local energy drink variant (gosh, we have sooo many).
Then it was off to the Longville Park farms, for a tasty and informative interlude, courtesy of agro-entrepreneur - and bon vivant - Donnie Bunting. Herb-stuffed tilapia on banana leaf, fried tilapia and - the piece de resistance!: Oven-roasted leg of lamb. Let's just say I was feeling no pain. The following evening, it was goodbye farmland, hello pristine hotel lobby. I bounded into Kingston's design-forward Spanish Court hotel for some musings and ideas for writers, publishers and book lovers in terms of digitized content and social media. The most engaging prsentation came from David Mullings, of random Media (the "Creative Genius" in the photo) whose Florida-based company recently signed a tie-up with You Tube to become their official Caribbean partner. other interesting contributions came from the floor afterwards and it looks like interesting times ahead for the book business (at the moment still mired in textbook hell). Maybe even TD will be further digitized. We'll see (and hear) 
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