Guadeloupe Travel Blogs

We flew in to Pointe-a-Pitre airport on American Eagle from San Juan at 2pm greeted by a gush of tropically heated air. The airport is very new and reminded us of the new terminals at Charles de Gaulle in Paris. We quickly rushed through immigration ( ...

... place in Guadeloupe with her three children. Kai, the name of a Beninoise who is the third daughter has been living in Guadeloupe since she was three years old and only recently has had contact with her father who is my husband's uncle. Anyways, to ...

There is a buzzing restaurant called Zeina located just across the street from the Casino in Gosier where tourists escape the bore of hotel buffets. Zeina has been open for the past 3 months and serves great food with Moroccan/Senegalese influnce ...

... , we treated ourselves to a full-day Tamaran boat trip down to Saint Iles which is one of the four smaller islands of Guadeloupe located just south of Grand-Terre on the main island. We travelled with two-dozen tourists from our hotel on a boat called Tip- ...

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... . Als Wouter en Mia weer weg zijn genieten we na van meegebrachte boeken, kleding en onderdelen, bezoeken een vulkaankrater op Guadeloupe en toeren veel op onze brommer. Naarmate we de Caribische eilanden volgen buigen we langzaam meer naar het westen en ...

I went away from the Gwada cause it wasn't a place to stay easily and to stick around the marina at the same time, so i decided to head north toward St Martin. I look for boats for 2 entire days but i got more lucky with the charters. They always need ...

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... , we decided to head south to "Les Saintes", a group of small islands part of, but south of the big island of Guadeloupe. We anchored in a small cove near "Le Pain De Sucre" (Sugar Loaf) which had deep, clear water. To investigate further, we dinghied ...

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... After Fredericksburg it was 400 miles of flat ranch country with only a couple tiny towns along the way. Just before reaching the Guadeloupe Mtns. we passed from Central to Mountain Time. At night we set up camp, chowed on chili and played Texas Hold'em ...

this woman threatened to break my face. That's some of the scariest shit that's happened to me in a long time. Freaked me out. Peace out.

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Travail dans la grotte

Retour sur le continent

God damn it, I just spent like half an hour writing this really long post on my past days here. And now it's gone. Great. I guess.. here we go again. Friday: The flight from St Maarten to St Barhts - amazing! Just amazing! That was one hell of a ...

out of here. I just can't make that final decision. I even told Féderico I wanted to leave and felt great about it! Then the very next day he's all being a sweetheart talking about my lovely smile and offering me all this extra responsibility if I stay ...

The conference was at La Créole Beach Hotel.  The program is at http://www.crt.umontreal.ca/tristanv/ The talks were excellent, and lead to many discussions afterwards. The social program was also great fun.

Stayed out east. Nice location for going to beaches. Did a couple of hiking day trips, but then needed to drive over to the western island (Basse-Terre). A photo from one of the walks.

So Tuesday I'm getting ready for work when my computer freezes, totally breaks down and refuses to start back up again. This is why my blog action and any kind of cybersocialization has been down to zero these past weeks. Back to Tuesday. I was ...

Here we go. Monday, work. Scary. Just the fact that the phone rings and I have to answer in french, be supersuperpolite (which I am not since I freeze and can't think of anything to say) and then the reception is right next to the offices of the three ...

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... right-hander for longboarders and a regional classic, don't miss it. Considered to have some of the most beautiful waves in Guadeloupe. Swell size: Starts working at 3ft and holds up to 8-10ft Swell direction: North Bottom: Flat, rock and sand Skill level ...

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I'm there. I've arrived. Not at Guadeloupe though but this site wouldn't let me chose St Barths as an alternative. Time to have lunch. Time to start a new travel blog too I guess. Later.

Nice hotel. Little "Lolo" on the beach !

Nice & Cheap... On the beach small concrete bungalows

Notre premier chez nous

Since being threatened by this insane ex-girlfriend Matthieu decided that he and I should no longer see each other outside of work. I guess for my protection only he never really clarified any reasons or conditions so the past days I've been tiptoeing ...