Sunday, March 23, 2025

Thoughts on the Caribbean

 That was a fun connection.  Martinique is really hopping, and there is a heavy Toronto connection.  A school class was visiting Toronto for a week, to improve their English.  Lots of flights to Montreal, second only to Paris.

On the boat trip we visited the Grenadines which was hit directly last year by a cat4 hurricane.  They have not recovered, and the shallow water means that big supplies can't come in.  After that, I looked at all the places with a hurricane eye.  They also have floods, fires, volcanoes, tsunamis and earthquakes.  My 'long-odds eyes' were calculating hurricane effects everywhere.

Anyway, it was an adventurous trip with lots of driving on narrow winding roads, where the locals go twice as fast as I wanted to.  Only the big tourist spots were crowded.  You got a nice sense of local life.

ps -- sorry, brain not working yet.  I was going for more than a puff piece.


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