Martinique Travel Blogs

Manchester to Antigua
Feb 22, 2005 (5 photos)

... with 115 euros each as the bags were delayed. Result! We were collected by Martin (our friend and skipper of the boat.) Martinique is amazingly green and mountainous and a lot bigger than we'd imagined. It belongs to France and is quite wealthy and well ...

Oud & nieuw plus "speciaal bezoek" op Martinique!
Jan 27, 2008

nog schrijven

Dominica and Martinique
May 3, 2006 (25 photos)

... ships in port. By the time we returned to Roseau we were all beat. We agreed to meet the next day in St. Pierre, Martinique. The passage from Dominica to Martinique was a delight. We dropped anchor on the shelf in St. Pierre and went a shore for the ...

Heading North
Apr 16, 2008 (3 photos)

16/04/08, Wednesday, 18:00, St. Pierre, Martinique Had a nice sail up here today - the wind and current were with us.  Mountains here are great.  Virgin Mary statue overlooking the town.  Watched a pod of dolphins play in clear water on our ...

Carbet
Jun 18, 2005 (35 photos)

Martinique.

New Years Eve........What New Years Eve?
Dec 31, 2008 (27 photos)

... to go through the 20 or so copies they require for their bureaucracy.  Our plan was to come to Fort De France on Martinique for New Years Eve celebrations for a couple of reasons, firstly we thought "Yeah the French know how to party" and secondly ...

Fort- De- France, Martinique
Apr 25, 2005

... and enjoying your selves wherever you are just now. I would love to write another long mass email to you, but I am currently in Martinique, having joined my new boat, and all the keyboards in the cyber cafes here are in French and are not at all like Im ...

Island of Sun and Rain...
Jan 29, 2007

... ! I turned a different direction another day only to find rocks on a beach and I have never questioned myself that I was really in Martinique until then. I felt like I was back on the beach in Norway or even at home at West Beach, staring up at the rocks ...

Arrive Martenique
Feb 21, 2003

mmm

Delayed Bonjour!
Jan 15, 2007

... French is a challenge but it gets easier every single day.  So far I have been to the center, north and east of Martinique. This coming Saturday, my class is going South. I am really excited to go swimming in the ocean!  I like my classes and ...

Fr_Fort-de-France
Oct 16, 2007

Sainte-Luce is a small town situates in the south-west of this Island. Martinique Island is a french overseas department. The Martinique Island is next another big french Island : Guadeloupe. Near the town of Sainte-Luce, there is the "Diamant". The " ...

St.Martinique
Dec 24, 2005

St.Martinique

The East Coast
Dec 3, 2006 (2 photos)

We left the west coast and traveled over to the east coast.  The island is only about 80km long by about 35km wide, so although the roads can be windy and hilly, it doesn't take long to cover some ground.  On the way to our next destination we ...

The Carib feeling
Jan 4, 1998

It was dark, it was humid, It was the caribbean. It was Fort de France.

Martinique
Feb 15, 2008

caribbean

Online Gaming in Paris
Jun 30, 2009

Paris Review: My Site: Click here 7Sultans Online is one of the oldest online gaming brands on the net, having run since 1999. It is part of the Fortune Lounge Group of online gaming brands, and in keeping with high standards, offers an exemplary ...

The West Coast
Dec 1, 2006 (1 photos)

Nic and I ventured up the west coast and stayed in a bunglow in St Pierre.  The weather was warm but for the first day or so there was a lot of rain. We went to the local markets, had Creole lunch at 10am (while others were having rhum) and then had ...

Heavy weather in Martinique
Jan 1, 2009

A few hours in Fort-de-France

La montagne Pelée
Jan 18, 2008

Saint Pierre, la Perle des Antilles, détruite en 1902 par l'éruption volcanique de la Montagne Pelée, tuant 30000 personnes sur son passage... La Martinique est une corbeille de fleurs posée entre une perle et un diamant....

Relatively Speaking
Apr 24, 2008 (25 photos)

... and enjoyed our brief stay. The second day we puddle hopped once more and anchored in St. Pierre, once the economic capital of Martinique. St. Pierre has the distinction of being the home of Mt. Pelee, which last erupted in 1902, and within three minutes, ...

Martinique to Trinidad
Mar 1, 2009 (8 photos)

... time on the French island of Martinique before we 180'd our direction to enjoy the Mardi Gras celebrations in Trinidad.   Martinique was remembered fondly in my mind as having wonderful French cheeses and wines. As we neared the island, our main ...

Martinique - a tropical paradise
Nov 30, 2006 (1 photos)

... shoes.   Hey, we're women after all. As mainly French and Creole (and very little English) is spoken in Martinique, Nic was heavily relied on for communicating.  Once again Nic used her outstanding interactive skills to get us a good deal ...

The Last Hurrah
Dec 7, 2006 (2 photos)

... a great spot.  From there we met up with Malek and Ludo for our last lunch together before heading out to the airport. Martinique was amazing and diverse.  Both Nic and I love the hot/humid weather so we thrived.  The north was lush and ...

Martinique
Apr 25, 2006

Martinique

Fort de France - again
Jan 22, 1998

... miles around. A fancy mix of reggea and modern rythms. After a feasty night, I drove south to St. Anne and rented a cottage for the remains of my stay at Martinique. Suddenly I had to go to FdF and my flight back to europe. A nice vacation, after all.

St. Anne
Jan 7, 1998

The strange way of public transport. You go to a huge parkinglot, ask around for the van that will take you in the right direction. And then wait for it to fill up and then go. It might take 10 mins, it might take 3 hours. Anyway - it took 30 mins and we ...

week 1
Nov 9, 2009

check ur email! the copy & paste mess doesn't do it justice :-)

Martinique
Oct 8, 2009

Nice trip to visit a friend to "le diamant". If you go far north of the island, stop at the end of the road, than walk one hour and you will find the beautifullest beaches in the world, with no one...

Martinique
Oct 31, 1980

Shopping. And the volcano.

Sunny french dom-tom, away from the cold
Jan 4, 2006 (5 photos)

Great, warm and friendly. South east coast, Les Salines