Monday 17^th December – Antigua.

 

Did a half day tour over to English Harbour via some hill forts with spectacular views.  Saw homes belonging to the rich and famous.  Falmouth and Nelson’s Dockyard were very picturesque.  Our free rum punch tasted very innocuous but proved lethal and we skipped lunch and had a sleep when we got back to the Ship!  Rained again tonight but that didn’t stop us sitting on the veranda deck with Tom putting the world to rights.  Tom, as the Choirmaster, gets half price drinks so we ended up having twice as many – what a saving!

 Rainbow off Antigua

 Sunrise coming into Antigua (the camera is still on English time!)

 This is how near to the town the ship parked

 Dow's Hill, Antigua

 View of Falmouth

 English harbour from Shirley Heights

 Eric Clapton's place in the country

Famous Antiguan cactus!

Tuesday 18^th December – Martinique.

 

First time in the French West Indies. Really strange to use euros as currency and see all the road signs in French. Trivia quiz question… Fort de France is the administrative centre of the island but the capital of Martinique is? – Paris!  Enjoyed driving through tropical rain forest.  The Franck Perrett volcano museum in St Pierre was interesting; with photographs and artefacts from before and after the 3 minutes it took for 30,000 people to die in a pyroclastic cloud, when Mount Pelee erupted in 1902.

 Yet another rainbow (oops!)

 Active volcano - Mount Pelee - is up there in the clouds, honest!

 Rum Distillery, Martinique. The highlight!

 St John's Cathedral

Sunset over Fort de France