Decided that I would add some tidbits of amusement about cruising.

 

When you are in a country that you can’t  understand the language even grocery shopping is interesting.  I thought I was buying  frozen chicken breast and ended up with turkey wings.  Do to my frugile background I tried to cook them.   I never new that wings could be so tough.  Yogurt is difficult to find in the Caribbean and I have had minimal success in making it so the French islands are a good resource.  Since Tom likes fruit based yogurt I thought I was buying blueberry but ended up with prune.  My frugile mode  forces me to eat it and sneak it on Tom’s cereal.  So we are know regular as well.  What’s interesting is you can’t really find pork BUT you see PINK pickleded pigs snouts.  Not only is the cheese and wine reasonable but the vegees must be imported as well as you can find moist carrots, peppers and yams.  Maybe its based on the amount of rain as the other islands these item are pretty solid and not sweat.  If you didn’t cook the yams in coconut milk you would have to drink lots of water with them to swallow.

 

You know you are in a more developed carib island when you start hearing other cruisers notifying coast guard (challenge with English to French) about a jet sky drifting 5 miles out from island.   The even have pay toilets on street corners.  So Tom really had to go so off we  went to pay for a pee BUT it ate our coins and no others.  So off Tom went to find a bush anyway.  So much for civilized nature.

 

Its interesting that water is relatively cheap $.01E/liter but gas is $1.34/liter (or $7US/gallon).  So you make your dinghy trips worthwhile.  But then 1E is $2.50 US.

 

I mentioned before that Martinique has abunch of nude bathers but I had never before seen a sun shield for a penis.  So you can learn all sorts of things crusing!

 

I started yoga again but realized that with all the rain we have had we get enough exercise just in opening/closing hatches and going up/down companionway.

 

I’ll try to jot down and remember to add more amusing items next issue.

 

Our Love

Rose & Tom