Peter's Travel Blog

This afternoon, we arrived in Bridgetown, Barbados. Being Sunday, it was pretty quiet; naturally, nowhere was open, yet more than a few people were wondering why it was that we’d spent so long in Martinique when we could have spent all day in Bridgetown. By request, Tracey and I had no tour escorting duties (yeey!). We were asked, but we...

Today, we arrived at our penultimate port-of-call, Fort de France on the island of Martinique. While Fort de France is the ‘capital’ of Martinique, its true capital is Paris, since Martinique is French. It imports everything from France and doesn’t export anything; in fact, even tourism is something that they don’t quite seem to have mastered yet. Some years ago,...

Today, we arrived in Pointe-a-Pitre on the mostly-French island of Guadaloupe. We’d been granted a much-appreciated day off from tour escorting, so were able to have a bit of a lie-in and a leisurely breakfast before heading ashore to see what Guadaloupe is all about. As we departed from the terminal, we were greeted by some rather impressive graffiti. Those...