Harmony Hotel Apartments Kingstown

... and exhausted! Well, may as well try and make it, I thought, so gritted my teeth and dragged myself upward with burning thighs…..and then the real hardship began – we were now in the cloud and it was cold – really cold – and then the wind started whipping across the area just below the rim of the crater and nearly blew us over. We huddled together and ate our lunch still being buffeted by the howling wind waiting for the cloud to ...

Bequia - a tale of 2 boat rides

And so, at last, after 3 weeks it was time to bid a reluctant farewell to Jo and Charlie and Mustique. If you visit the West or North coast of Mustique you can see Bequia (pronounced Beck way) - it's there - just a big stonesthrow away. OK allowing for the nautical deceptive distances etc. - 10 mins. -ish.
We decided to go on Sunday - oops - mistake. Options - plane - 5mins ferry - 10mins (!!!) or swim. Sunday ...

... lumbering through the gardens or crossing the "roads". Courtship and mating is quite a noisy affair with much grunting and clacking of shells. Indeed in "the village" - more of which later - there is a huge, bronze statue of mating tortoises ( I guess nobody famour ever did anything here).
If the tortoises set the pace of life - then the lack of set times/hours is governed by the island's largest number of ...

... you finally flush, the water must actually lift the entire mess up and move it forward enough to plop it down the hole. Does that sound complicated enough? It'll definitely leave enough of a smear to give my wife a hissie fit also. Maybe Europeans are stool watchers; I don't know. If that's the case, then Dutch toilets are just the thing for you. As you inspect the details of your internal life and digestion process you can even hum along the lyrics ...

... jam jau tikrai uzteks...As pradejau vienas...Kiekvienas zingsnis lyg sniego butu iki pilvo...Griunu pirmyn, rankomis praskinu krumoksnius, remiuosi rankomis i zeme, galva braunuosi pirmyn...Puse kelio prasliauzus atrodo, kad gal ta virsune visai neaukstesne ir didziule pagunda pasukti atgal...Bet suprantu, kad jei pasuksiu tai visa gyvenima isliks abejone ir sukaupes nezinia kokias jegas dar per kokias 10 minuciu pasiekiu ta virsune ir 1.238 m!!! 8 metrais auksciau ...

... over the Easter weekend in order to attend Mass. We met a couple at the internet place who had been cruising over the past 15 years, including several transits of the Panama Canal. We invited them over to our boat for dinner so that we could find out more about those adventures. They mentioned that they were thinking about racing in the annual Bequia Easter Regatta but didn't have enough crew. We offered ourselves up to the cause. We enjoyed three days of intense ...

... its natural surroundings and provides all guest stellar Caribbean views. The property consists of the main building atop a hill, a cluster of cottages below, and a thatched bar and restaurant facing two kilometers of windswept beach (784-458-3222). 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 ...

... Kim and Ben can tell you all about this! By the end of March I had to get my ass in gear and catch a flight to St. Vincent for this Pirates malarkey. Leaving Ben and Anne (whom I consider the grown ups in our little merry band of Musketeers) in P-of-S the chaos and disorder really started. Arriving at the airport at 3.00am the lady at the check in desk said they wouldn't carry my surfboard- 'oh' said I, 'well the 14yr old work experience lad at the office in town said ...

... meeting him and doing some research, we headed north to Bequia, an amazing Island, and my favourite so far, really chilled out and friendly. Did our surveys here, stayed a couple of days to do beach yoga- my back is seriously playing up. After this, we headed due east to the fabled Island of Mustique to work here, I was SO excited, always fascinated by this place and was able to see it 1st hand, and what a place, very odd indeed. We were working with a lady called ...

... the osprey left for grenada so we hired another taxi and took a tour around carriacou,it,s amazing how the locals live,most of their houses are no bigger than our garden shed,and inside they have tiny little room ,with a great big tv in the middle!!.The kids are really cute, they look so sweet ,immaculate in their school uniforms ,the girls with their hair braided and ribboned,and they always seem so ...