Posted by admin on Jul 18, 2012 in Blog | Comments Off on Relaxing in Grand Anse Martinique – 15 July
Actually i spent most of the day on the computer thanks to the wifi code we got from “piti bauteau” when we had our fish fritters yesterday. aimee went for a brief hike between rain showers. fortunately the sun came out just in time for happy hour and i actually got two electrical projects complete. i installed aimee’s new fan in the kitchen and put a new plug on the vacuum. ...
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Posted by admin on Jul 17, 2012 in Blog | Comments Off on Basstille day Forte de France – 14 July
we woke up with the sun again and while aimee was ashore running i was surprised by this frigate or something that came up behind us. i could swore i saw this same one in the red sea! they wasted no time getting anchored and then playing what i presume was the french national anthem as they ran up a stream of flags (see photo). aimee reported a bunch of military people milling around so we...
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Posted by admin on Jul 15, 2012 in Blog | Comments Off on St Pierre to Forte de France – 13 July
so this morning just after sun rise we motored over from the “cannery” to the town so i could get wifi while aimee did yoga. after yoga the town was not looking super exciting to me so i stayed on palapa to work while aimee headed ashore to explore. she found the market and got us some soup ingredients among other things. we had decent internet so we decided to chill and get some...
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Posted by admin on Jul 15, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment
Well today we where planning to get caught up on internet and then leave in the evening to sail south to st lucia. however once we got on line we discovered the winds where switching around to the south in the evening so it looked like our best shot would be to leave straight away and just sail the 50nm or so to st martinique. by the time we got the dingy back and everything organized straight...
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Posted by admin on Jul 14, 2012 in Blog | 2 comments
Aimee had invited the hippies over for egg-mignon at the end of our evening last night. she suggested 9am and much to our happy surprise jen said it would have to be by 730 or they would be starving. this was great for us as we have been getting up somewhere between 5 and 6am. in the end we where a few minutes late but the egg-mignon was a great hit siets had at least 3, which is just as well...
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