Recently, my seemingly fruitless pursuit to learn how to speak French, my struggling inner-student who wants to learn and remember history, and my desire to have a mariner’s geographical photographic memory, feel mildly quelled and a bit inspired by a small purchase. We’re back in the Caribbean and on a French-speaking Island as I write, where I bought a bilingual… Read more →
DO I SPEAK FRENCH, you ask? Oui, un petit, petit (petit) peu! We’ve returned to the Eastern Caribbean after 4 hurricane seasons in the Northeast and 1 in Georgia. Until we landed in the Spanish Virgins, we hadn’t realized how much we’d missed the weather, good vibes, great sailing, laid back lifestyle, swimming off the boat, fresh tropical fruit and… Read more →
While we still had the rental car, we headed back north to try and get to Mount Pelée. There was also a water sports outfit in Carbet that offered fly boarding, something Daniel really wanted to give a try. We stopped in Carbet first, and asked a gentleman if he knew where the fly board people were. He said it… Read more →