We have been here in Les Saintes for a couple of days. It is very beautiful, and as such, a mecca for tourists arriving on the ferry from Guadeloupe to walk and ride scooters around these small islands. The people here do not share the same history or culture with the main islands of Guadeloupe. Being too dry for plantation culture, it was a fishing settlement for Bretons people, and remains to this day apart from Guadeloupe in culture and attitude. During the long strike last year, Les Saintes remained open for business.
We have visted Fort Napoleon, and dined ashore last evening. Today we made the short walk across the island to the Plage de Pompiere, a lovely sheltered beach with palms and other trees shading most of the beach. We lunched at the at the little grill closest to the beach. I had acras de morue, a salt cod dumpling deep fried. Been there and done that. K had a very good tuna sandwich, which had a lovely island flavour. Funny that so much salt cod is eaten in these island, when there is quite a lot of fresh fish right off their coasts?
In any case, we had peas and rice for dinner and I am blogging before we leave this little paradise with lots of Arnold's HotHotHotSpot internet. Tomorrow we are off to Portsmouth in Dominica, where Arnold has not been able to get the HotSpot working with any stability. The trades are back and we should have a good close hauled sail down, in moderate to biggish seas. Fun.
I have been able to modify my trading techniques to adapt to intermittent contact with the markets and have been the better for it. Now I set me sell order up at the same time I buy, and when I get back on, I diary the reapings.
So its off to Dominica.
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