Bad weather is following us around. Rain, rain, rain in Martinique too. It does not make our jobs here easy. We hire a car to get to the big Hyper U, but getting back in the wet and dark is not fun. Fortunately, the rain eased up when we reached the dinghy, two trips to get the shopping back on board was bad enough in the dry!

Read more about our few days in le Marin and our shopping trip

Barbados for a week, despite the rain and a bouncy anchorage in Carlisle Bay, we had a wonderful time on the island. It does feel ever so, ever so British. Speightown, our first port of call, was a riot of colours. Bridgetown, the capital, had everything to please, fabulous beach and historic buildings. Loved the buses and the people in them, they were great fun and a good way to see places like Oistins and Silver Sands cheaply. St Nicholas Abbey was beautiful, nothing religious in it, unless rum is your creed, but a beautiful plantation. Shame we had to leave so soon!

We love Tobago, much quieter, slower and secluded than Trinidad, could not spend as much time exploring as we intended to but the few places we saw were beautiful.

Read more about our visit to Scarborough, the capital, Englishman bay and Charlotteville in the north of the island.

It only seems weeks ago we did this in le Marin. In fact it is 4 months and given what we found when we lifted Mr X, just as well we did. Things where not as good as expected, the anti foul did not do its job, neither did the man who took care of the prop.

Read more about our arrival in Chaguaramas, hauling out in Peake, the boat work we had to undertake, scheduled and unscheduled.

Still it wasn’t all work, we went to a Jam session, went to the market, visited Port of Spain, and spent a day with humming birds.

We went back in the water on my birthday! Then we tried to leave Trinidad, twice!