French West Indies

Just back from St. Barts, French West Indies

... around, read books and enjoy fruity rum drinks. We also wanted somewhere "foreign and far" for a different experience. Grenada, West Indies...The Spice Island. They produce more spices per square mile than anywhere on earth...and it's way down ...

... is perfect and I have enjoyed traveling, but I can't wait to get to Saint Barth, where we will get to settle down (and have more time to eat). Eric D I set Saint Martin as French Southern Terr. because I couldnt find the option for 'french west ...

... a skin-coloured shirt and this made us burst into fits of laughter. We got into an elevator with even crazier laughing drunk French people.while Poolie stayed in our room to read a book and watch the new horrible Indiana Jones movie (knowing full well ...

... cheap (good) or expensive (bad). But cheap  prices have other appellations: "precio de amigo" (Spanish), " prix d'ami" (French) or friendly price (English), being generally admitted that a friend always will charge us something at the lowest or most ...

... the colonies, the Acadians began a 30-year odyssey of wandering as "boat people", settling in France, Quebec, the French West Indies, French Guiana, and the Falkland Islands. In 1785, Spain needed settlers to bolster its claim to Louisiana and invited ...

... ;Reggae tones.  He said "Rastafaria" a bunch and did a sort of reggae rap and then this guy Francoise from the French West Indies we'd met on the way in jumped up and rapped in French.  It really was an international hip hop show. ...

... to over the coming 52 days. Besides the USA, with it's Hawaiian island of Oahu, countries include France for French Polynesia & French West Indies islands of St. Martin & St. Barth, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands islands of ...

Today we enjoyed the playground of the rich and famous. St Barts is in the French West Indies and the entire island speaks French with the Euro is currency.  One can arrive here by yacht, (large cruise ships need not apply) or small plane. The runway ...

... deal with building issues, now that must be a noticeable shift in your weekly routine! I befriend a school teacher from the French West Indies who is also travelling alone, and together we experience all the main sites, she is very interesting and is not ...

... crap about God and religion and can I give him money. I walked off unimpressed. I walk down a road dedicated to fine West Indies Cricketer and head into central Georgetown. The streets are rough, poverty is evident and I'm walking around keeping an eye ...

... house left intact in the lower Mississippi Valley. Hand-hewn cypress timber, pegged attic and bousillage-entre-poteau construction and West Indies style roof are unique features. A costumed guide told us about the structure, history and the building's ...

... constructed between 1904 and 1913 and a total of 56,307 were employed during.  Majority of these people were from the West Indies, Europe and the US.  Hospital records show that over 5,600 died during the US construction period and a published ...

... shops for a new one! That night, i went with Sokunty to have dinner at her friends place. We ate a blood sausage from the West Indies, which was nice, but had a strange consistency. On the way home, Sokunty randomly asked the metro driver if we could ride ...

... tip of South America, in the South Caribbean Sea.  Cartagena, also known as Cartagena de Indies (Cartagena of the West Indies) was founded in 1533 by Don Pedro de Heredia, and named after the port of Cartagena in Spain’s Murcia region.  ...

... ;     Amid a tangle of tropical foliage, in town midway along the busy waterfront promenade, the small, classic West Indies-styled Frangipani is steeped in local history. Once home to Prime Minister Sir James Mitchell and still owned by his ...

... seen by Europeans in 1501. Christopher Columbus came a year later on his fourth voyage to the Americas (he had discovered the West Indies in 1492) and in 1510 the first European settlement was established on the east coast at Santa Maria. Three years ...

... up on wonderful French wines, cheeses and sausages, we had an early morning departure for St. Lucia. The nicest thing about sailing in the West Indies is the proximity of the islands. It was about 30 miles from Fort-de-France to Rodney Bay, St. Lucia - a ...