Intrepid Travels

This morning we upped anchor and took off once more, this time just a short hop around the corner to the picturesque anchorage in the main town and port of St George's, where the buildings around the Carenage reflect a colourful colonial and busy shipping past (both English and French). Once ashore, we ended up spending at least a couple of hours in the local museum where 'Liz' provided us with a somewhat convoluted and rambling commentary on the island's past, as well as telling us her own story. She married a Guyanan lawyer in the 50s and the two of them worked in 'black' London until retirement, when they moved to Grenada and built a small house (with a few nutmeg trees) and settled here. Once alone again (it was difficult to get away!), we immersed ourselves in the museum memorabilia of the Grenadian revolution and the Cuban and US involvement, before joining the throng at the local market, climbing up to Fort George, and buying fish from the wharfside. One last item on the shopping list was a transformer, and the search for this took us to ACE hardware, which did not have what we were looking for, so we asked where else we could try. 'Try Eli Postle' the man advised, so we set off to follow his directions, only to find that the shop we were looking for was 'LA Purcell'; something had got lost in translation!