点评:While in Kingston, we visited the Trench Town Culture Yard which is a place that all fans of Bob Marley or Reggae Music should experience. It is where a young Bob and Rita Marley lived in a single room of the U block in the Government Yards. The Culture Yard has several displays and artifacts to see including an original guitar of Marleys and his VW van that he drove. It costs $20/person to visit and included a guided tour that was of marginal quality. However, for $40, we called the phone number on the website and arranged a guided walking tour of the Trench Town neighborhood beyond the Culture Yard. This was with Sophia from InnerCity Tours, and this tour made the whole experience in Trench Town so much more memorable. Sophia grew up in the neighborhood and remarkably her father was one of the original members of the famous early ska band The Maytals. She provided a great tour lasting about 45 minutes telling us so much about the history of the neighborhood as we walked the gritty streets with her safely guiding us along. This was realistically probably the only way we could have walked around the neighborhood and not been out of place. We stopped by Bob Marley's childhood home and also stopped for a cold Red Stripe at a local dive that was enjoyed on the walk. It was a very authentic experience and am so glad we did this along with the Culture Yard after touring the Bob Marley Museum and Tuff Gong Studio earlier in the day. I feel like we got the full Bob Marley immersion that day.
翻译:在金斯顿期间,我们参观了战壕镇文化园,这是所有鲍勃·马利或雷鬼乐迷都应该体验的地方。这里是鲍勃和丽塔·马利年轻时居住的地方,位于政府广场U座的一间单人间。文化园里有不少展品和文物可供参观,包括马利的一把原版吉他和他开的大众面包车。参观费用为每人20美元,包含一次质量一般的导览游。不过,我们花了40美元,拨打了网站上的电话,安排了一次文化园外战壕镇街区的导览徒步游。这次徒步游是和InnerCity Tours的索菲亚一起安排的,这次旅行让我们在战壕镇的整个体验更加难忘。索菲亚在这个街区长大,值得一提的是,她的父亲是著名早期斯卡乐队The Maytals的创始成员之一。她为我们安排了一次精彩的导览,大约45分钟,在我们漫步在泥泞的街道上时,她向我们讲述了街区的历史,我们一路安全行走在她引导下。这或许是我们唯一能在附近散步而不显得格格不入的方式了。我们去了鲍勃·马利童年的故居,还在散步途中在当地一家酒吧停下来喝了一杯冰镇红带啤酒。这是一次非常地道的体验,我很高兴在当天早些时候参观了鲍勃·马利博物馆和Tuff Gong工作室之后,又去了文化庭院。我觉得那天我们完全沉浸在鲍勃·马利的氛围中。