The end of the season Wednesday morning the time had come to leave our new favorite place Canouan. Along the elegant harbor exit we set course for Carriacou, the northernmost island of Grenada, our last stop before the final destination St. Georges. We set the 19 nm short course through the narrow channel of the …
Hidden Paradise Canouan For sailors and other sea lovers, there are some Caribbean islands that everyone knows. Or rather, let’s say whose names are pronounced more sonorously, with a gleam in their eye. Mystique Island, Antiqua, St. Barth, etc. Canouan is not one of them. Not yet. But you should keep that name in mind. …
St. Vincent & Grenadines We find it really beautiful here, on the islands of “St. Vincent and the Grenadines” (SVG). A long name for a small country with only 110,000 inhabitants. Independent, but a member of the Commonwealth. However, payment is not in GBP, but in East Caribbean dollars, like in some Caribbean states. Actually, …
Windy way south Sounds like a pilgrimage, from one Saint to the next. Something like a Caribbean Camino de Santiago. For us, there were indeed a few burdens along the way. Our stop in St Lucia was unplanned. Actually, we only wanted to stay one night with a yellow flag up. The likeable Marigot Bay …
One island a day keeps the doctor away After Stéphane, despite a herniated intervertebral disc, had successfully completed our installations, we finally left the Marina Bas-du-Fort last Thursday. When we complained that we had now really spent too much time in Guadeloupe, the locals looked at us confused and asked why we were so keen …
