Cricket correspondent Mark Eklid's daily diary from Derbyshire's Barbados tour
WHAT is the world's shortest book? The Wisdom of Piers Morgan? Places of Interest in Mansfield? Welsh Tennis: The Glory Years?
Or how about Beers of Barbados?
Basically, there's one. You go into a bar and ask for a beer and the barman flips the cap off a bottle of Banks. That's it.
There may well be other beers available on the island but I cannot recall seeing anyone drink one.
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You want a beer, you have a Banks.
Banks is a Barbados brew and is nothing to do with the company that, many years ago, advertised on the dome of the old Grandstand at the County Ground and once employed Noddy Holder of Slade to figurehead their TV ad campaign: "You can keep your thankses, I'll have a pint of Banks's".
It is a perfect fit because the beer is served cold and the weather is hot but it is always interesting to take these things out of their normal context.
How many of us, over the years, have returned home from a holiday in the Greek islands with a bottle of duty-free ouzo in the suitcase because we once sipped a glassful in a restaurant looking out to sea at dusk and thought it was just blissful?
Try recreating that in your front room on a chilly evening with Coronation Street on the telly. Not quite the same, is it?
That's why so many of us still have a largely full bottle of ouzo gathering dust in our cupboards.
Likewise, I did see Banks in a supermarket at home last year and so bought a few bottles.
It was nice but it wasn't quite right. In Barbados, it's right.
So while it is great to walk into a bar at home and choose from a long line of a dozen or so beers on handpumps, sometimes it's good to keep things simple.
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