Le Marouba Le Carbet
Quartier Choisy Le Carbet, Martinique
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Short but not so Sweet
History
St. Pierre lies at the foot of the Mt. Pelee Volcano, which last erupted on 8th May 1902.
At theat time, St. Pierre had a population of 30,000 nd was known as the Paris of the Caribbean. It was the commercial, cultural and social centre of Martinique.
The volcano apparently gave plenty of warning. Minor rumblings began early in April and before dawn on the 2nd of May a major eruption covered the city with ...
Days 86-87: Don't walk, Rum!
We woke up the following morning to the Frenchman delivering our croissants and baguettes at 0630. We ate them, (except for Becca, she left hers out in the rain and was nearly thrown overboard for it) weighed anchor, and were on our way. These islands are all hundreds of feet deep right to the shoreline so we were able to cruise on by at a stones throw from shore. It made our bikini watching much easier which led to a boost in crew morale. Well that and also our second ...
Slight Drama
Any kind of drama in this country would be very much compounded by the fact that my french is basic conversational at best, and the Martiniquens english completely non-existant in most cases. So imagine my terror when I couldn't find my passport anywhere on our second day on the island. By a quick process of elimination I figured I must have lost ...
World Cup Fever hits off in France.
Marty - No time to waste in Grande Anse, we had to get going. Norman and Alison wanted to get to Saint Maarten before the Hurricane season really got going. Saint Maarten is THE place in the Caribbean to shop and they wanted a flat screen TV, iPod, camera, oh and some things for the boat. Saint Maarten would normally be out of reach for them as they usually had to get back to St Lucia to drop ...
Relatively Speaking
... that we had to head back to the English-speaking island of St. Lucia. This was a big disappointment for me since we mostly skipped Martinique last year. But -- Au revoir, Martinique. I really was hoping to do a bit of touring this time around. We turned around back to Le Marin so that we could check out. Shortly after we arrived in Le Marin, we overhead one of our friends we met in Grenada on the VHF radio. We ...



