This morning we woke up in Pointe-a-Pitre, (which I want to keep calling Paint a Peter) and we are not on a tour. I repeat, no tour escorting duties today. Yippee.
Not that we mind going on the tours really, because we do get to see parts of the islands that we wouldn't otherwise. But we do like being able to spend time in with just ourselves too, and today we would be able to do just that.
Goudeloupe is a French Caribbean Island. I didn't know that. It means they use the euro, and they are part of Europe, sort of. Bizarre eh? It also means that Point-a-Pitre is very much like all the Caribbean towns we've visited, except everyone speaks French. In a way it's sort of comforting and not so strange. Anyway, we set of for a good ole wander around town.
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| Stunning art on these old walls. You can't call it graffitti, it's far too good. |
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| A lot of the buildings were almost colonial in style, built of wood. If you look at the one middle right, with all the balconies, you'll notice it has corrugated iron sides? |
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| Really colourful markets, and this spice market smelt divine. |
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| The vegetable market |
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| I can't resist the birds, and this big brown pelican was hanging around outside the fish market. Extraordinary bird. |
To be honest, apart from the markets and the street stalls, there was not much for us to see - but we enjoyed the stroll and an ice-cream in the local park.
We've seen most of the shows of an evening, and choose most nights not to watch them again. Instead, we often settle down in the cabin to watch a couple of episodes of Star Trek - broken up with a cup of tea on the back veranda looking out into the night sky. Very relaxing.
Tomorrow we are in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It's another French Caribbean Island, and yes, we are on tour in the morning, but the ship is in port until 10 at night, so we have all afternoon and evening to explore. Let's see what tomorrow brings.
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