Marie Galante We have just spent three days in Marie Galante, and felt the island deserved a blog entry to itself! Marie Galante is a little island just to the South of Guadeloupe, and, like its big brother, is French. It is also an incredibly relaxed and charming spot. Our sail up to Marie Galante …
Instead of resting our aching muscles, we spent the day after the Boiling Lake walk at Carnival. Carnival is a big event in the Caribbean with parties all week culminating in two days of madness on Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras. The Monday event starts at 4am with J’ouvert or daybreak. Revellers in fancy dress …
At the end of January we made the long passage north from Bequia, bypassing Saint Vincent to arrive at Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia just before sunset. We arrived expecting the new chart plotter we had ordered from America to have also arrived. That was not to be, so we spent over a week in the …