Back to France, or at least the french islands

We are finally back to a french island. We've been down in the Grenadines and St Lucia for four months. Today we got to Martinique. I went into town today and got two croissant and a baguette. I have no idea how the french make the croissants and baguettes but they make fantastic pastries. We have had baguettes and croissants in the Grenadines and St Lucia but they really suck compared to the ones you get on a french island. It also doesn’t matter where you go on a french island, what town you're are in, any bakery you go to has delicious baguettes and croissants. That coupled with the fact that wine is also delicious and cheap makes these the best islands for food and drink.

One other good thing on the french islands is the price of red meat. We haven’t had much red meat down in the Grenadines and St Lucia. I think we sprang for rib eyes once and t-bones once. We had sirloin twice.  Not much for 4 months. But now that we are on a french island we can get rib eyes and t-bones for 22 euros a kilogram. Which is about 10 bucks a pound. I’m looking forward to that.

Lexie and Max think the crabs taste the same on the french islands and they are probably right.


I wrote that when we got to Martinique but never got a chance to post it. We are in Les Saints now. We made it up here in one day from Martinique, That's about 70 knots. We were doing about 8 knots most of the time,  except when we were by Dominique then we lost the wind and were only doing 5 knots. But it was a good sail.

Today we rented a scooter and went around the island.  We checked out several beaches and also Fort Napoleon. This fort is really well preserved. It has a museum inside the main building, which had alot of displays but they were all in french which I can not read very well.


We have turkey for tomorrow and we have some friends to share it with so we are planing on a happy thanksgiving.

                                                           A sunset in Martinique

                                                       Max and Lexie hunting crabs

                                                        Fort of France Martinique
                                                

                                    The volcano that wiped out  St Pierre Martinique in 1902

  
                                                  A club Med cruise boat in Les Saints