We’re now in Habana and the Internet availability here in scarce. They are either out of internet access cards or the computer is busy, but we’ve managed to find a hotel where we could connect with our laptop. The speed is low, thus the pictures and video-clips from Cuba must wait until we’ll arrive in Mexico (Cancun) or Belize, sometime after 21st March, But first, let’s go back where we’ve left:
Total stay: 7 - 14 February
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Fast Facts
Capital: Castries
Population: 160 000
Area: 616 sq km
Known for: Jacquot parrot
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Lucia |
Our impressions
Expensive (tourists pay always more), great seafood, plenty of yachts and sailing boats.
St. Lucia has some issues with hustlers approaching tourists thinking that our pockets are bottomless, though not to the degree as in some of the more touristic places in Jamaica. |
Vieux Fort Bay
7 - 8 Feb
We hooked up with our friends onboard their 37 foot sailboat Manaña in St. Lucia. Some other good friends from Norway joined us as well. They will be sailing together for one month. And we’ve sailed together on the west side of the island for one week.
Anse la Raye
8 - 9 Feb
Anse la Raye is a small sleepy fishing localsthat has become the island’s Friday-night hot spot with their Seafood Friday (locally called Jump-Up). It’s a seafood BBQ party where the villagers come out on streets preparing their specialties (the fish cakes are highly recommended) served with ice-cold beers and tasteful rum cocktails. The real fun starts after 22:00 when most of the tourists leave.
Rodney Bay
9 - 11 Feb
Is basically a marina, where yachts and sailing boats fill up their tanks with water, charge batteries etc. We had some great Swedish massage by local lady speaking Swedish (!). She studied there. There is an ok beach nearby and a restaurant (Key Largo) serving good original Italian pizza (highly recommended).
Here we got introduced to some nice people: Stian, Sølve and Siobhan. Our friends met them first at Grand Canary Island and then Cap Verde, before they started the crossing to the Caribbean. They were sailing on Uredd also for one year as our friends.
Soufrière
11 - 14 Feb
Coastal Pitons provide scenic settings to the bay and the island’s highest peaks rise above the rainforest just a few miles inland. Piton is also the name of the national beer (which is light and very refreshing in the heat).
This stop was basically to enjoy the rest of our time together with our friends.
Some final words
Hilde & Harald – thanks for inviting us to your boat and taking such a good care of us! We’ve missed you ;-) Harald: you have really good musical skills, singing, playing guitar and mouth organ!
Inger-Marie & Atle – great to see you again and we are glad that we got to meet you during our travel!
Sølve – great guitar playing!
Siobhan – hope we’ll meet in Cuba or at least stay in touch ;-)
St Lucia photos collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/perove/collections/72157603931882239/
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