17th February, 1665 Port Royale Jamaica
The carriage rumbled down the streets of Port Royale. They passed through streets filled with rumsoaked pirates staggering and carousing, whores soliciting their wares to sailor and landlubber alike. These streets were lined with taverns, brothels, gaming dens, and ordinaries, when a man could get a room for the night. They passed another street, more savory things took place along that one.
True there were taverns, but these were more like 'cafes'. There were shops, like tailors and jewelers, and other shops selling the fine things in constant want and need by the upper class of Jamaica. It was fu