{"id":2187,"date":"2019-03-04T19:28:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2020-08-08T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:20:07","slug":"kingstown-st-vincent-grenadines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/kingstown-st-vincent-grenadines\/","title":{"rendered":"KINGSTOWN, ST VINCENT, GRENADINES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today, at midday-ish, we arrived at our first Caribbean port, Kingstown, on the island of St Vincent, in the Grenadines. What was originally going to be a morning visit followed by an afternoon tender in Bequia, was changed to an afternoon and evening in Kingstown, with Bequia being cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we arrived, a further announcement was made, with regards to our scheduled visit, the following day, to Mayreau\u2026 it, too, has been cancelled. Instead, we will be visiting St. Georges in Grenada. This is a massive shame, since we were looking forward to a day in Mayreau. We like St. Georges, too, but hey ho\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the morning visit to Kingstown had gone ahead, we would have been on tour. That would have been okay, with the promise of an afternoon on the beach in Bequia. With the unexpected change, however, we opted out of doing any tours at all, and made plans to find a beach on St Vincent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What with one thing or another, the beach plan got ditched, and we ended up taking a walk through Kingstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The town, very typical of this area with its colourful, bustling markets and laid-back street sellers, was busy as we made our way towards one of the three churches there. The colonial-looking St George’s Anglican Cathedral is in a state of being refurbished, so its interior had been more or less gutted, except for a few rows of pews, still in use. The main attraction of the church is a unique stained glass window featuring a red angel. The window was originally commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her grandson, the Duke of Clarence. The Queen rejected it, though, because of the red angel, which should have been white, and instead, the window ended up here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our next destination was the weird church just across the road from the cathedral. It’s weird because it looks like its been thrown together in a haphazard way, with strange angular, lego-brick-type turrets, bold castellations and a tiny, ornate courtyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, we headed up the hill, through a residential area of the town, to the Botanical Gardens. It’s a pleasant enough place to visit, with its extensive grounds and lily ponds; we saw several birds of interest inluding a humming bird and a few of the island’s national bird, the St Vincent Parrot, or ‘Amazonia Guildingii’, in a small aviary there. Seeing the parrotts in their cages was not an endearing sight; the cages looked bare and unstimulating. An display board informed us that the St Vincent Parrot is an endangered species, with only 500 left in the world, and the birds in their cages are part of an ongoing breeding programme, designed to help save them. If you going to save them, though, it wouldn’t hurt to give them some decent accommodation\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eventually, we ended up back at the port, where we took advantage of the free wi-fi in the terminal building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow, we’ll be visiting St George’s, in Grenada, before heading off to our final Caribbean port-of-call, Barbados, the day after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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