Helen: well, we finally made it to Trinidad yesterday at about 1am in the morning - if we hadn't overhead some fellow guests in the hotel lobby who had just found out about a secret flight, and blagged a lift to the airport though, we'd probably still be stuck in Grenada.... When we got to the marina it probably won't surprise you all to find out that we couldn't find our yacht so had to spend the evening with a guy we met from the plane on his boat (merci beaucoup Alain!!) This is becoming a bit of a habit
But, this morning, the sun's up and we've found our yacht Santana, our skipper David and his black and white cat, Tom, who can open cupboards with his paws and seems to be very good at getting in the way all the time on board. David is really lovely and switched on and the boat is much more of a vessel than the previous one, so fingers crossed...
I feel much more positive today than I have for a while - I've been really sad the last couple of days to have left our friends in St Lucia - travelling is great and all...but just when you find folks you get on with and want to get to know better you have to move on. So I've joined bloody facebook to keep in touch with them all. Grrrrr.
In fact, the only thing that isn't going quite according to plan just now is that I'm covered in bloody mosquito bites. :( 18 at the last count. C has one.
Right, off to get clean now - we're sailing for Grenada tomorrow or the day after...
Hxxx
ps suppose I ought to say something about the island - from what we've seen Trinidad is much bigger than the other Caribbean islands we've been to so far, and much richer (oil). You can actually drive for 20km or so on a 3 lane road in a straight line (Graham will know how different this is from the windy single track roads on Gran Canaria and St Lucia). People are much more multicultural here (lots of Asian and white faces as well as black) but they don't seem to be as friendly! Looking forward to getting back to St Lucia - the least developed of all the places we've been so far - reminded me of Africa.
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Glad to know all is well - the cat sounds great - perhaps it can swat mosquitos! Very cold here, freezing fog and iced up windscreens - you probably can't even imagine it over there. Take care Susan xx
What name does the B&W cat have? Of course, be he must be Jess!
I imagine you're back at Grenada - again! 'Tis fate! You will spend the next three months moving endlessly to and from Grenada.
Santana sounds fun - your turn for good firtune - and I see the weather's good... but we're having fab LOG FIRES - the sort you have to retreat from!!! So there!
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