This was intended as the first part of a trip to French Guayana for a Suyuz launch, but was truncated due to COVID-19.
Grenada
Fort Frederick
Fort Frederick Amidst a clutter of poles and pylons
St George, from Fort Frederick
Grenada Parliament, from Fort Frederick
Fort St George, from Fort Frederick
Fort St George
Fort St George
Fort St George
Ruined interior
Maurice Bishop Memorial Marker
View from Fort St George
St George
St George Parish church
St George waterfront
Gratuitous lizard
Barbados
Bridgetown
Independence Arch
Independence Square: Errol Walton Barrow First Prime Minister of Barbados
National Heroes Gallery
Parliament
Nelson
Nidhe Israel Synagogue (1834) On site of older 1654 synagogue.
Supreme court
Sir Garfield Sobers statue
Barbados: Garrison Savannah area
"The Main Guard"
"The Main Guard"
Elderly Cannon
Elderly Cannon
Soldiers' Brick Barracks (1808)
Barbados Museum
Around Barbados
Sir Grantley Adams + Guide
First Landing (1605) Monument
First Landing (1605) Monument
St James Anglican Church (much rebuilt)
St James Anglican Church
North Point, Caribbean view
North Point, Atlantic view
Sugar Wind Mill
Barbados: St Nicholas Abbey
A restored sugar plantation, including a grand Jacobean Manor House and a rum distillery.
St Nicholas Abbey
St Nicholas Abbey: Designed to Impress
St Nicholas Abbey
Abraham Cumberbatch 1728-1785
Elaborate gentleman's reading chair
An authentic Thomas Crapper toilet
Distillery
St Nicholas Abbey guide
Fermenters + Kettle + Distillation column
Distillation Column
Distillation details
Steam cane crushing mill
Steam cane crushing mill
Martinique
Fort de France
View to Fort St Louis
View to Fort St Louis
Fort St Louis
Fort St Louis
Préfecture de la Martinique
Bibliotheque Schoelcher
Bibliotheque Schoelcher
Bibliotheque Schoelcher
St Louis Cathedral (1890)
St Louis Cathedral (1890) Steel framed, to resist fires, earthquakes and hurricanes.
St Louis Cathedral
La Savane Park
Belain d'Esnambuc Founder of French settlement of Martinique
Martinique: St Pierre
On 8th May 1902, the thriving town of St Pierre was abrutly destroyed by a pyroclastic surge from the Mount Pelée volcano.
Around 25,000 people died within minutes.
Ruined Theater
The ruined prison
A surviving stone prison cell
Scotsman in prison cell
One of the few survivors, who had been in a stone prison cell.
Memorial Museum of 1902 Catastrophe
Damaged bronze church bell
Earth Sciences Research Center Museum In an earthquake-proof building
Cloudy Mount Pelée, slumbering peacefully
St Lucia
While I was in Martinique, the French authorities closed all public access to the Cayenne Space Center. So I decided to truncate my trip and return home.
But since St Lucia was on my easiest route back, I stopped off there for two days.
St Lucia: Around Castries
View of Castries
Castries: Derek Walcott Square
Nobelist Sir William Arthur Lewis
Nobelist Derek Alton Walcott
Castries: Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
Castries: Apostles battery
Castries: Apostles battery
Castries: Apostles battery
Castries: Apostles battery
Castries: Apostles battery Rotating mount and mismatched cannon
St Lucia: Trip to Soufriere
Banana farm
Very fresh, very tasty, bananas
Cassava root
Cassava ginger bread
View to the two Pitons
Petite Piton
Gros Piton
Inland view
Morne Coubaril estate
Cocoa beans in pod
"Dancing" on dried cocoa beans, to polish them
How cocoa beans are processed
Sugar crusher: Powered by a tourist-savvy donkey
Ripe green breadfruit
Qualibou volcano sulfur pools
Qualibou volcano sulfur pools
Pineapple plant!
View to Soufriere
Soufriere
Soufriere Freedom Monument Commemorating slaves who defeated the British in 1796
Soufriere: Church of the Assumption
Soufriere: Church of the Assumption
St Lucia: Pigeon Island
Pigeon Island was once an island, but is now merely a peninsula.
Winter
