The company I work for, Automattic, is a distributed company. That means our employees live and work all over the world. A few times each year, we meet up to spend time working and having fun together. I’ve just returned from a meetup in Barbados, where we worked on the email subscription feature of WordPress.com and Jetpack.

The Portugese came to Barbados en route to Brazil. It was at this time that the island was named Los Barbados (bearded-ones) by the Portugese explorer Pedro a Campos.
— Barbados.org
We spent most of our days working at the hotel, taking breaks to go swimming, and venturing into town in the evening for dinner. On our last full day, we spent a few hours on a small catamaran and then toured the Mount Gay Rum Distillery. Here are some a ton of photos from the trip!
Twinsies
Oh hai
Hotel from the sea
Lunch at MIA
Sea turtle
TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bridgetown
To Bridgetown
Back at work
Break time!
Bridgetown
Bajan fish fry
Sunset
(poolparty)
Just hanging out here in Canada…
Ocean selfie: Success
Great hat, Kidder!
Fresh pineapple
El capitan
Waves, etc.
“Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”
Onboard
“Are we there yet?”
When in Rome…
Catching a wave
Fish fry festival
Miguel in his natural habitat
Horrendous work conditions
Exploring
Another Canadian flag…
Back to the boat
Business meeting
Relaxamatticians
Breakfast
I hope that was “wins”…
Stylin’ at BGI
La playa
Clicky en la agua
Ugh, another meeting
Celebrity onboard
Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour
In deep thought
Swimatticians
Kayakamatticians
Broken sunglasses
Working
Diving
+t +d adorbz
Fish fry
Hotel restaurant
Sunset
Fitting in with the locals
Until next time…
ʇnʍ
Bridgetown
Shipwreck
Some more waves
Last night
The hotel
wut.
Did somebody say, “Rum?”
Pra$ath
I spy…
Oh hai
Hose selfie
I’m incredibly graceful
Grim reaper
Back to the hotel
Oh, Canada….
Moment of impact
Shipwreck
Tortuga
Ocean selfie: Failure
Watching some cricket
“Roger, Roger, what’s our vector, Victor?”
The locals
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I’m getting a real case of beard envy – never been able to grow a proper one. Excellent beardmanship! Oh yeah, and a touch of job envy too! 😀
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Thanks, John. I can’t really help with the beard… but I’ll just leave this here.
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You do make an excellent point! 🙂
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Reblogged this on clickysteve and commented:
Some awesome pictures from my pal/colleague Ryan Cowles of the Barbados trip.
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Are these all from the GoPro? They look so cool. Tempted to get one
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Some are from the GoPro, and some from my S4. The video came out better than the pictures under water, but I have yet to upload those 🙂
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gosh, i miss this place .. great pics!
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Thank you! It was beautiful.
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We had a decent amount of fun, sun and rum (that *almost* rhymed!). It was a blast hanging out with you and the rest, Ryan. Hasta la próxima!
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I’m going to allow the rhyme. Thanks for putting everything together, Richard! Y sí, hasta la próxima!
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Reblogged this on Dustin Hartzler and commented:
Had a great time last week with some of my Automattic coworkers!
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