Papiamento Island
“I speak four languages,” says the taxi driver as he chauffeurs me from Curaçao’s airport to downtown Willemstad. “English, Dutch and Spanish. And Papiamento.” Papiamento, a mélange of English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Dutch even contains some African tribal dialect. Spicy, diverse and tropical in its rhythms – the perfect metaphor for Curaçao – spicy, diverse…