Thanks guys a lot for the suggestions - unfortunately I live in Cayman Island and Coinbase is not supported here.
It tells me:
You don't have to worry mate, if coinbase is not available in your place there are still out there that still available for you to buy bitcoin, if spectrocoin is still available you can try it, It tells me:
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