Apple exec Wozniak falls for Barbados

Mon, July 05, 2010 - 5:52 PM

IT WAS LOVE at first sight for Steve Wozniak of Apple computers fame. He was in Barbados for one week to take part in the 2010 World Segway Polo Cup Championships.
Wozniak, who made his first trip to Barbados and the Caribbean, fell so in love with Barbados that he vowed to make it his honeymoon spot when he ties the knot very soon.
The American computer engineer – who co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne – created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s.
He told BARBADOS BUSINESS AUTHORITY he was impressed with Barbados from the moment he landed here.
“It was the most fun I ever had for a sporting event. It was like I was sharing a vacation – this beautiful place, the atmosphere, the people, the weather – it is second to none.
The computer engineer came to Barbados to exact revenge on the Barbadian Segway Polo Team that defeated his team, the Aftershocks, in last year’s final in Cologne, Germany. In fact, Wozniak blamed the beautiful attractions in Barbados for his team’s poor performance, finishing seventh out of nine teams.
“We will be going back to the drawing board to sharpen our skills. For a team that has only been playing Segway polo six months before taking part in a world championships last year to have won was a phenomenal feat.
“To do it a second year in succession is incredible. Your team will be in the Olympics someday. They have taken Segway polo to a new level; they are just an awesome bunch of talented players.

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Posted by Deborah Jones 1 year, 10 months ago: See people fall in love with Barbados because of the island not because of Rhianna.

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Posted by Jinx 1 year, 10 months ago: I can see that the local team took good advice and made the foreigners enjoy our pleasures so much-that they couldn’t perform.

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Posted by Loyal Bajan 1 year, 10 months ago

This is but one example as to why Barbados has a 47 % rate of returning visitors to our island, it is not all about our see sand sun that is so plentiful but it is being said very loudly and clearly here it is in no small way more about our warm and friendly people that Barbados is remembered for.

I am proud to be a Bajan and even more proud when I read stories like this about why Mr Woz fell in love with Barbados and its people.

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Posted by Shirley 1 year, 10 months ago: Of course they love Barbados it is a beautiful island. I love it too. Just keep the crime down and all the foreigners would run to Barbados.

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Posted by Steve c 1 year, 10 months ago: This is the kind of news that i enjoy hearing from visitors who fell in love with Barbados and it’s people on first visits. It surely makes me proud to be bajan. Good job by all.

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Posted by Mandissa 1 year, 10 months ago: Wozniak came to Barbados after he played segway polo and not by listening to or by the urges of someone saying get up and drive .
Interesting.

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Posted by CAH 1 year, 10 months ago: I am always curious as to which side of Barbados visitors are exposed. Did he fall in love with the “Sandy Lane” lifestyle with all of its trappings or did he go down to the shop and have a drink with the people? On my last visit to Barbados, I had an opportunity to go to Sandy Lane and experience a day and dinner there. It was the most wonderful experience. The staff was the most professional and inviting that I have ever experienced in a hotel/dinner setting. The atmosphere was simply sublime. Now, if this is the Barbados that I am coming to then, hell yea, I will be in love with the place. But true love is when you sit in a rum shop or walk Broad Street or sit on the beach, for example, and just absorb the Bajan way. Now when you have the FULL experience of Barbados then Barbados will always be a part of you.