Blogs from Grenada, Central America Caribbean - page 17

Hello everyone! I am going to keep this message short because there are others waiting to get online. I just wanted share a few photos so look in that section. We went on an 8 km hike today through Grenville the nearest city here and down to the beach. There were kids with their moms playing cricket with scraps of wood and a tennis ball, goats tied near houses every where. Mangos, breadfruit, pears and coconuts hanging from most of the trees. It is hard to see that this land was very much devastated by Hurricane Ivan only a few years ago. There are definitely houses in a wreck but the people have worked hard on the rebuilding but the evidence still remains which testifies to the times. At the beach we met a little boy ... read more

Hello everyone! We arrived safely after our flight from Toronto to Barbados, then on to Tobago, and then Grenada after the sun set. There was a workers strike in Barbados so we were a bit late getting away. On the plane ride down I sat between a Trinidadian and a woman from Barbados who talked about the merits of silver fish and jack fish. The Caribbean from the air is a beautiful sight and so I took some pictures from the plane. After checking in and out of immigration in Barbados, we even had a tourist rep meet us in Grenada. We met the contingent from Guyana and headed into the town of St. George's. It is a port town, but nothing like anything I have ever seen. We got to see it in the dark ... read more

Hey everyone, it is 12:10 a.m. and I should be in bed, but alas my packing is now finished. I am off tomorrow morning to Grenada and will try and update as I can. There is only dialup down there, so don't fret if you don't hear from me regularly. Such is the life! I hope you are doing well. I am off on my Grenadian adventure. love, Katy... read more

Two weeks into my trip and I am finally ready to do this blog thing. So far so good, I've been chilling out and climatising at my folks house in St Andrews, Grenada. It's been very relaxing, swimming in the sea everyday, eating mangoes like it's going out of fashion and eating fresh fish like a local. So far I've been mostly liming with our next door neighbours, Grenadian soca stars Tiger T and Gary 'Stadium' Williams. They've been great, giving us joke, fetes and the insiders knowledge. My big brother hooked up with them when he was here on honeymoon nine years ago. Three of my brothers, Donald, Eugene and Paul and my nephew DJ were here to help start of my great adventure the family way. Chris unfortunately couldn't make it. They've gone back ... read more