Position: 15° 34’N 61° 27’W Portsmouth, the main town in the north, is a few streets of houses busily rebuilding after hurricane Maria’s devastating impact 18 months ago. The entire island suffered terribly from some of the strongest winds ever …
Position: 15°52’18″N 61°34’52″W Just south of Guadeloupe are the Îles des Saintes. We found them both beatific and beautiful. We moored off the little island of Cabrit. Deserted now, the ruins of a Napoleonic citadel are a short walk up …
Context I’ll start by saying I’m a Remainer. I have been all my adult life. When I moved back to England in 1977 questions of Europe, the Common Market, and the UK’s role in it were rife. Eurosceptics abounded. Things …
Position: 16°17’58″N 61°47’50″W Guadeloupe sealed the deal for us. As soon as we stepped ashore we were in France. Everything from the road signs to l’insouciance de la police made us feel as though we’d been magically transported 6,000 kilometres …
Position: 17°38’00.4″N 63°14’19.7″W Climbing to the top of Mount Scenery on Saba Island, it is easy to forget you’re on an active volcano. The lava dome is not only the top of the island, but the highest point in the …
Position: 17°37’58.3″N 63°14’16.3″W Clouds hang on Saba. Viewed from St. Martin, Saba (pronounced Say-bah) is a giant fist of a volcano thrust out of the sea. The volcano is quiet these days, but as you approach from the north you …
Position: 18°30’02″N 64°21’57″W Last year we celebrated New Year’s Eve in Charleston, South Carolina. Avid readers of this blog will recall the ‘bomb cyclone’, aka freak snowstorm, that brought the city to a standstill. Our big celebration was to crawl …
I started and did not finish a Coursera course on Creative Writing. Here is one of the exercises and my submission. Peer feedback was only available to paying customers, not for us auditors. If the story sounds derivative and familiar, …
Position: 18°25’05″N 64°36’35″W Having ordered our new windlass motor, we were stuck in the Virgin Islands until it arrived. Having successfully raised the anchor by hand with all my vertebrae intact, we left the US Virgins and headed over to …
