To help celebrate a significant birthday, friend Lyn and I planned our third trip to the Caribbean; our first trip in 2001 was to visit Dominica, a shortish hop from Guyana where Lyn was on VSO placement. Our second Caribbean trip to Tobago with a brief stay in Trinidad was in 2004, so this time we thought long and hard about which of the approximately 30 islands to visit. If you click here
you can have a look at where the islands are positioned in relation to each other.
As independent travellers, we wanted to find out as much as we could about the places we visited, support the local economy and see as much as we could. After much research and discussion, we decided to fly to Grenada, stay there a couple of nights to recover from the flight, and then spend 8 nights in Carriacou, a smaller island north of Grenada with a population of 6000, and return for the final 4 nights to Grenada. We didn't want to hire a car, so saw the islands on foot and by local minibus.
I've selected my best photos to show how wonderful the trip was, and how enjoyable the glimpse of another lifestyle was with daytime temperatures of 28 degrees, especially when 'the beast for the east' was plunging temperatures in the UK to -6 degrees. I haven't totally avoided the cold though, with deep snow, for Swindon, in the garden today helping me settle down to put the photos on the blog.
First 2 nights and final four were spent at the lovely Siesta Hotel, selected because of its proximity to the airport, Grand Anse beach and shops. We arrived as it was going dark, next morning we were amazed to see a green heron in the waterway opposite the hotel, and hummingbirds amid the flowering shrubs.
The heron is in the middle of the photo above, it was there because of the amazing numbers of fish in the water.
We walked through to Grand Anse beach, seen here in great splendour and as you can see not busy in the morning.
From Grand Anse beach, we walked to Morne Rouge beach
along the way, the range of flowering shrubs growing along the side of the road was stunning, here are a few:
This one above was one of my favourites, with the whole plant seen below:
I'll add the first photos taken from the balcony at Siesta Hotel when we arrived as it was about to get dark:
Very similar photos, in the lower one, you can see the swimming pool, quite a good size and a great asset to the hotel. Beside the pool, a cafe, Le Papillion, operated 5 days a week, a lovely place to eat with fantastically tasty lemon crepes.
you can have a look at where the islands are positioned in relation to each other.
As independent travellers, we wanted to find out as much as we could about the places we visited, support the local economy and see as much as we could. After much research and discussion, we decided to fly to Grenada, stay there a couple of nights to recover from the flight, and then spend 8 nights in Carriacou, a smaller island north of Grenada with a population of 6000, and return for the final 4 nights to Grenada. We didn't want to hire a car, so saw the islands on foot and by local minibus.
I've selected my best photos to show how wonderful the trip was, and how enjoyable the glimpse of another lifestyle was with daytime temperatures of 28 degrees, especially when 'the beast for the east' was plunging temperatures in the UK to -6 degrees. I haven't totally avoided the cold though, with deep snow, for Swindon, in the garden today helping me settle down to put the photos on the blog.
First 2 nights and final four were spent at the lovely Siesta Hotel, selected because of its proximity to the airport, Grand Anse beach and shops. We arrived as it was going dark, next morning we were amazed to see a green heron in the waterway opposite the hotel, and hummingbirds amid the flowering shrubs.
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