Sobrado Hotel Santa Maria

Saturday 17/01/09 St Vincent - Cape Verde Islands A truly volcanic island chain, the barren rugged mountains dominate the landscape and the surrounding islands to the extent that it resembles a lunar landscape. After a brief visit to the city of Mindelo we travelled on to Catfish Bay to take in the majestic sights of the bay and the rugged mountain backdrop, the strong ...

Je suis venu pour faire une plongee d exception : la grotte de taracona et son fameux rayon bleu. Je pense faire un sommet de volcan, la descente d un volcan est toujours sympa, la cendre se comporte comme de la cendre. Pour les photos il faut attendre que je trouve un centre internet haut debit.

... have about four or five holidays booked up, so it's the next trip after those. So, all this is to explain how I ended up in Cape Verde. I opened the brochure, saw the name and thought "I've never heard of that - I HAVE to go there". Possibly the greatest joy of going somewhere obscure is watching people's faces when you tell them where you're going. "Cape Verde?" they say, struggling valiantly, before asking "Where's that again?". Better still is when ...

... We were a little foolish to arrive during the afternoon siesta so as the village was shut we decided to climb to the top to gain a good view point of the island. Half way up some army men started whistling at us, we didnˇ¦t really know what they were signalling so we continued the climb. Once at the top we were greeted by 4 guards and were given a guided tour of their hill and satellite dish. (See photosˇK.) We have met a couple of ...