some French, some british influence here, but the people on both of these 2 islands are decendants from African slaves. Both places derive most of their income from tourism, but unfortunately are very pushy salespeople. You really almost have to be rude and say no thank you many times…
We plan to do a rainforest hike (the 3 of us, with Jara), but much of those areas were flooded and had mudslides in October with Hurricane Thomas, so we cannot go. Instead we walk to the town of Castries, 2 km or so, walk around the markets, get a taxi to Vigil Beach and have a beach walk. Then a taxi back to the market to walk around some more. Bought some more fresh spices today, cute package in a coconut shell. Looked everywhere for a tank top with their slogan of “LIVE SLOW”, but only t-shirts. It is a shorter day in port, so we are back on the ship by 1:30 to relax on our verandah. Gerry did all our laundry in the bath tub, so tonight our deck looks like a chinese laundry, but things are drying fast at 80 degrees!
Dinner of salmon for G and Spinach Ricotta Lasagna for S in the Vista DR, with a group of 9, all the rest are from the US, New Orleans, Washington wheat farmers, Ohio and Atlanta. Lots of travel talk and the food was yummy. Lucky for us they charged us for a glass of wine instead of a bottle, bonus!!
We caught the end of the Celtic entertainment in the lounge, had our photo taken (on our camera) as it is formal night, took a picture of a cute dog with a tuxedo bib on in the picture gallery, but then was accosted by the photo gallery police and had to delete from my camera as it is their property! Trouble tonight! So safer doing this in the room….then off to bed early as it is a full day in Barbados tomorrow.
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