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Nevis sightseeing was hills in the fiery heat on bikes that protested followed by a morning of seeing the sights from a bus.  We moved on to St Kitt’s where we were supposed to have an easy trip by bus but we were dropped off at the foot of Brimstone Hill to climb to 218mts […]

A lot has happened in the last few days. We mounted a dinghy invasion on the University grounds once more and we played cricket using mangoes as balls, the baseball bat given to us by Edward to defend ourselves as the cricket bat and the trusty old foldaway seat as a wicket! Totally exhausting but […]

We are somewhat perturbed that you, our dear readers, might think that life on Ocean Rainbow is one long party so we are  putting evidence of some serious hard work on this blog!   James took on the propellor and Claire had the 'easy' although somewhat larger job of scraping OR's hull.   We are […]

Peregrine and Honey Ryder provided the transport– poor Yamahaha lacking the horsepower required for this trip!  We loaded up drinks and picnic, sunscreen and mozzie repellent and set off up the Rivière Salée to Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin.   The river is singularly lacking in wildlife but once in the main basin we did see a couple […]

We had great fun scrumping and now have a fridge full of lovely fresh mango but our pièce de résistance on Sunday was our gatecrashing!   We did it …. not quite on the first attempt but we have managed to see around the Mémorial ACTe (museum) after ‘sweet talking’ the Minister of Tourism.  Quite a feat …. […]

After a day spent cleaning and tidying we are now ‘fit for purpose’ were it not for the horrendous number of barnacles that have attached themselves to our propeller.  James’ attempts to remove them were rewarded with sliced fingers (despite gloves) so we have decided to lift OR and do the job properly.  A bit […]

After a wonderful weekend in North Yorkshire for the amalgamation of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers with the QRL to form the Royal Lancers we are fully ‘Royalled Out’ and ready to get back to some sailing and adventuring on Ocean Rainbow.   Our return to OR was somewhat blighted by evidence that we had been boarded […]

Finally, after a week of trying to find someone with whom to share a hire car I struck really lucky and found Wild Bird (Gayle and Time aka G&T) and Hogfish Maximus (Rachel and Chris).  They’re longstanding cruising companions and agreed to take me along with them.   We set off complete with two Patterdale terriers […]

This lady is employed by the bus company to transport folk on an ‘express service’ from Pointe à Pitre (south) to Anse Bertrand (north).  And, express it certainly was in terms of speed - she drove like the wind even red lights were ignored (don’t worry, there’s nothing coming the other way she said!!) but, […]

Gwada certainly know how to party – it’s been non-stop carnival for a week culminating in Wednesday night’s amazing funeral pyre when the Carnival King, Valval, was raised to the ground as a signal that Lent had begun and all the partying and feasting had ended.   We are now assured that all will be quiet […]