A Tour Of Grenada.

Being stuck here we took a Tour Of Grenada by using the buses, which is quite an experience. The following are photos of some of the more common flowers and plants seen on the island, some of which we also have in south of France.

Boungonvillas, like we have in France.

Then we went to the "Grenada International Food Festival", which is a similar event to the "Luxembourg Foire International" and attracted the top brass and many speakers. We had an Indian lunch and it was good.

I also had, at the Cuban stand, a Mojito, which is a Rum, Lime, Sugar, Fresh Mint and Canada Dry mix, and is nicely strong and refreshing.....

Our Indian lunch cook. Great food.

This lady told me that she live in Rotterdam and has a house in Woburn, next to us. She is an artist and paint some very colourful pictures.

Then we took the bus back to St. Georges and found the bus no 6 to Grenville, which is a 45 min drive from St Georges. All the bus drivers are friendly, like all the Grenadians, but they have a tendency to have extremely loud reggae music playing, and driving around 80 km/h on these narrow roads, and talking on the phone all at the same time, is a tough and daring experience. Ugh.....

Grenville is located at the east coast half way up on Grenada. It is a fishing town and very busy.

Mahi-Mahi (Dolphin, but not the Flipper type) and a Barracuda.

Very busy with boas arriving all the time.

A few smaller Tunas.

Mahi-Mahi and plenty of them.

The piece missing between the head and the tail of this Mahi-Mahi, became our dinner this evening, cooked with plenty of Olive Oil and Garlic. It is a great fish. We paid a modest EC$ 7/lb (US$ 2/lb).

The fish Market in full swing and extremely well organised.

Our Mahi-Mahi being cut.

Chris prepared the Mahi-Mahi according to the Grenada tradition and used the Grenada engrediantes, which she has learned during the last two weeks cooking classes at the True Blue Bay restaurant. Very nice.

Then a bit of a visit to Grenville.

The Church.

This is the stitching and the repair shop. They were very busy, but the house was a bit chappy.

The main street.

One of the many bars with loud reggae music playing.

How do you like this chaps hairstyle? Assume he won't hurt his head if he stands on it?

Driving on the bus at 80 km through the rain forest and mountains (up to 682 m altitude).

This is called "Liming Out", which mean that the men are "hanging out" drinking along the road. At 80 km/h, the photo had to become unfocussed.

A house taken on the camera at 80 km/h.

Driving the rain forest down to St. George town. it rains a lot especially on the mountains and the vegetation is very dense.