On 16/12/03 17:02, in article BC04EB0A.1FAFC%evleth@wanadoo.fr, "Earl
Evleth" wrote:
> On 15/12/03 17:23, in article %dlDb.8240$Ve.772341@news20.bellglobal.com,
> "Jean&DD" wrote:
>
>> I could use usefull infos for these two places, Tortola and Grenada. Like
>> what to do or to see in these places.
>> Thanks Jay Gee
>>
>>
>
>
> For me the BVI is for sailing, we have gone there for years. The Islands
> are interesting to visit by boat but the main island (Tortola) is not that
> big.
>
> Grenada is a much larger island. I have only been once and came by sail
> boat, stayed in the harbor and went ashore to visit. We went in the 80s
> there and did a couple of trips through the Grenadines by sail. Since we
> have concentrated on the northern Caribbean. For boating it is safer.
>
> Earl (from Paris, France)
>
My wife reminds me that we took a nice trip into the hills in Grenada it is
much more tropical than the BVI. They also had a nice museum. My wife had
done a lot of archival research on the islands for a French priest on a
small island in the Grenadines so she could fill me in on how many times
these islands had changed hands between the Spanish, British and French.
The main problem with all the islands is that they never were very
economically viable and today it is tourism they depend on.
Every hurricane which came through destroyed that years crops.
Rain is not steady so the islands have water problems at some times
of the year.
I remember visiting one island near Union which had nothing but goat paths,
the priest had had a parish there for years. We were there on a Christmas
day and struggled to the village on a hill top, which still had the church
the priest had been at. While walking around and old black woman came up
and greeted us and asked
"Where are you from"
We answered
"From Paris"
She responded, delightfully,
"Oh, then you must know Father Divonne"
In fact we did know Father Divonne! She did not know how big Paris was
and from her village and island viewpoint you knew everybody in the
village you lived in. In fact the good father, in visiting Paris now and
then
stayed in our area, which has a number of Catholic institutions, missions
etc.
We talked with her a few minutes, said good by and went back down to the
beach and took our dingy back out to our sail boat and sailed off. Also
delighted.
A small world indeed.
Earl
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