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January 7 - February 7, 2008: Back to Martinique
Back after a brief trip to St. Lucia, we had a few uneventful days. But today, January 12, we visited a street fair, experienced some incredibly gloomy weather and thought that you might want to take part in our life - even those less specctacular events...
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Local Street Fair
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Wedding at the "Mairie" |
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One of two live Bands |
Family Affair |
The other live Band |
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Local Fruits and Vegetables, including Coconuts
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Local Art made of Tires mostly
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Impressions of Le Marin - taken after our visit of the Street Fair, and the incredible Weather that surprises us time and again...
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Its hot on Martinique |
Axel on his way to make Dinner Reservations |
Our new Neighbors |
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Weather Brewing |
...more Weather |
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Sailing Local Style |
...a better View... |
Glass Bottom Boat - I always wanted to go on, Juergen does not |
Our Good-Bye with Brit and Axel on "Hello-World" - January 15
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Flags under our Spreader, France, Martinique |
Axel attaching the Dinghy Engine to Hello World |
Brit cleaning the Anchor |
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Brit and Axel waving good-bye |
...here they go... |
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At a Distance |
Juergen's Dream Anchor... |
January 27 - below, you will see pictures of "Baros's" welcome party as well as the regatta of the local boats with square sails as described in our logbook:
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Wolfgang exiting his Dinghy |
Eva and Ruediger arriving at "Baros" |
Eva - with Champagne |
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Eva -Wolfgang |
Group Photo |
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Regatta Series |
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Regatta Series continued
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Did you notice that the Suits are matching the Color of the Sails
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Our last few days on Martinique's Le Marin
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Le Diamant in Sunlight ... and under a huge Cloud |
Beach Promenade |
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Lunch in a Creole Restaurant - cooked on a makeshift Stove outside - in the town of Diamant, named after the Rock (above) |
Church in Diamant |
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La Pagerie, the birthhouse of Emperess Josephine- and the "Canerie" (where Sugar was made from Sugar Cane") - we could not get into the actual Birthhouse, if it is ever possible...
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Juergen, sightseeing at the Pagerie |
We thought this was Mount Pelee (without cloud coverage for the first time since we arrived) - it is the mountain that devastated Ste. Pierre in 1902, killing all but five or six inhabitants. Once we arrived in St. Pierre, we realized that this was not the case. Pelee is too proud to be seen and seems to be hidden in clouds all the time. |
Martinique Weather, the way we have experienced it more often than we cared for |
St. Pierre - the way we experienced it - and actually found it quite charming.
They were celebrating Carneval on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Tuesday night all night until the early morning hours, to continue as of 1500 again. But by 2200, it all seemed to be over, in part because he had been raining and gotten cooler, in part because most people had to go back to school / work. We left on Thursday morning at 0700 to go to Dominica - finally. But first, see our pictures of St. Pierre.
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St. Pierre |
St. Pierre - and "our" favorite Restaurant - great Pizza! |
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Eglise du Mouillage |
Impromptu at Anchor in St. Pierre |
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Our Friends, Wolfgang, Eva, Annegrete, Juergen, Ruediger |
A last Good-Bye |
800 Seat Theater |
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Juergen in Theater |
Prison near Theater |
Sculpture damaged by Mt. Pelee's Eruption in 1902; 30,000 People and the entire Town were destroyed on May 8
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Former Military Housing |
Plaza and Clock Tower in St. Pierre |
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Historic Building in St. Pierre |
Sunset - finally... |
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Carneval in St. Pierre |
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