I asked a local lady in St Lucia what her favourite meal was, her reply accompanied by a large grin was pig tails. She was almost drooling by the time she told me how to make it. Now I haven’t had time to try this, so I am hoping someone will and send me feedback. [...]

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One of the wonderful thing about sailing is meeting new people, some you just enjoy their company while your share an anchorage and some you will keep in touch with.. Mal and Joan are two cruisers we will keep in touch with. We had fun and one sunny Sunday going for a walk with them, [...]

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Benny’s Flambé Bananas Peel bananas, split length ways, and fry in pan with little butter and sugar if you wish. Add rum to pan, heat, pour onto dish and light rum carefully. Serve, eat when the flames have gone out. Unless you’re a flame eater.

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“What’s that dinghy doing in the middle of nowhere? It looks just like Benny Junior’s beaten out tender” We collect it and put back on a mooring as we leave Harmony beach. I wonder if Benny will use a different knot from now on! Will he get lessons from the children on the beach he [...]

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Just two again but not for long. Jane and Alisdair have agreed to go into the courier service and their first job is to St. Lucia, delivering parts to a yacht in transit. They have allowed themselves one week to find Giselle. However we know the arrival times of planes from London and they are [...]

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It’s wonderful the arrivals area at the airport. Rebecca was on the flight and we had seen her come down the plane steps, now the wait till she was through customs etc. The beginning of her holiday. St Lucia south to Carriacou and back to St Lucia.

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A few days on our own, a quiet hogmanay in Marin, and we take off walking around the bottom end of Martinique, great walk around the coast, passing some of the best beaches from the sheltered west coast to the great Atlantic side with all the swell rolling in.

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New photos in the gallery. New Year’s walk, Sail to Antigua and being in Falmouth Harbour. These are from the time between Andrew’s and Rebecca’s Visit. Much of the time when Giselle was in Antigua Mary was at home visiting Family. The link in “where are we” is for Bourg in Les Saintes to the [...]

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So no comments on the windward vs leeward islands question. My thoughts are that it relates to where they are on the voyage from Europe and back. Sailors travel south from Europe to nearly Cape Verde Islands then across to caribbean. They return to Europe via Bermuda and Azores. So you would conclude all your [...]

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The gallery of photos is now complete. Link to gallery

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