Since it started getting cold back home in Canada, we've had a few visitors down, so I haven't been able to get to our blog as regularly as I'd like. My apologies.
Back at the end of October we went up to the beautiful island of St. Lucia for a weekend. We had heard really great things about the island so we wanted to go. We'd also heard about a fun festival that was being organized by a friend of ours from here in T&T - The Second Annual Food and Rum Festival. So we decided to go over that weekend seeing as we like food and we like Rum!
St. Lucia is a really beautiful island. It is the second island we've been to (the first being Grenada) and we enjoyed it much more. Not sure if the weather played a part (we were in Grenada for Tropical Storm Felix!) or the festival, but it was really very nice.
There is a lot of development going on there - and a lot of high end developments - and it's clear to see why!
I'm going to let the pictures tell most of the story, but quickly our weekend consisted of:
- An afternoon boat cruise sponsored by Appleton's rum which included lots of Jamaican rum, a great lunch at a nice resort and a viewing of the Piton's - two large spikey peaks - the island was formed from volcanic activity.
- A wonderful dinner at a very fancy resort, cooked by Art Smith (Oprah's ex personal chef)
- An afternoon tasting rums from all over the world and a nice dinner with friends from here on T&T that were also in St Lucia
- A day on the beach
- A hike up a hill to an old fort
- Exploring the capital city, Castries (not very exciting, actually!)
And now for some pics....
The Pitons:
Rodney Bay:
This was where we waited for our flight, after checking in!
2 comments:
Oh my god - in that last pic of Kate having a beer, is she drinking a Piton? Monica and I loved that when we were in St. Lucia...
That is indeed a Piton, Donny. We enjoyed a few ourselves that weekend. Although there was a lot of rum, we managed a few beers too!
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