San Francisco
Day 291 – San Francisco, USA I’ll start with a belated happy St Patrick’s day. People in green, or with green accessories have been around all day. Arriving in San Francisco, I had to wait for my bag to arrive on the belt, which is pretty much the first or second time it happened in…
How to be 33 hours late
Day 289 – 290 – La Sagesse, Grenada; Miami & San Francisco, USA Today, I was leaving Grenada and wishing I could stay longer. Well, I got my wish. I was dropped off at the airport with plenty of time, I checked my backpack right away, passed the controls, waited at my gate… then came…
Half-day tour of the island
Day 288 – La Sagesse, Grenada Find all the pictures here! My aunt booked a guided, half-day tour of the island’s West coast -the one less known since they are based on the eastern coast. We were the only people on the tour, so it was cosy, and the guide had a clear accent, so…
Walking to the point
Day 287 – La Sagesse, Grenada We started the day by a walk to the promontory. The closer to the point we got, the fiercer the wind, obviously. Grenada Shortly before lunch, we packed beach gear and went to Grande Anse, the biggest, main beach of the island. We stopped in the way to buy…
River Antoine Rum Distillery
Day 286 – La Sagesse, Grenada This morning, we went to the River Antoine Rum Distillery. Here they still do everything traditionally: they use a water wheel (shipped from England in the 19th century), they ladle the sugar cane juice from boiling vat to boiling vat by hand, they feed the fire under the stills…
Carriacou
Day 284-285 – Hillsborough, Carriacou, Grenada On the advice of my aunt, I had booked a night on Carriacou island, the second island of Grenada (the third is called Petit Martinique). When I called to confirmed my booking, I saw that not only it hadn’t been confirmed, but when I had enquired originally I had…
Palm trees and white sand at BBC Beach
Day 283 – La Sagesse, Grenada Yesterday was rainy, so we didn’t really go out. The guests left, the rain a fitting send-off. Today we went to BBC Beach, which is not the name of the beach but a nickname due to a radio antenna above it. The water was so clear you could see…
Grenada
Day 281 – La Sagesse, Grenada After an unadventurous arrival last night, picked up at the airport by my aunt and my uncle, I met this morning their other guests. They had planned an outing and had included me in it, which was a very kind thing to do! We went to Grenville to pick…
Stollmeyer’s castle
Day 280 – Port of Spain, Trinidad After a bit of shopping (sometimes, just the normality of spending a bit of time in a mall is a good thing in a complicated trip), we went to Stollmeyer’s castle to see an exhibition with traditional carnival costumes. (I had forgotten my camera, so I took pictures…
Carnival
Day 279 – Port of Spain, Trinidad For this day -finally, the costumes!-, friends whose house is on the path of several bands -groups of revellers sharing a costume theme and having their own logistic train- opened it to those who wanted to watch them pass. We brought a cooler full of ice and drinks,…