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Jul.10.2008
Another belting-hot day in Soufriere and we're just hanging out by the pool - tonight we're going for dinner at a restaurant which serves the hottest Vindaloo curry I've ever had - we're talking blistered lips and major damage to the extremities here. Heard a good Vagina Dentata(the myth about...
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Jul.09.2008
A blistering hot, sunny day in St. Lucia - just lazed on the beach and snorkelled - the coral reef is literally 10 yards from shore and teeming with Kingfish, Trigger fish, Parrot fish, tetras, everything. The water is totally clear and warm and the salinity is very high, so floating is effortless...
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Jul.08.2008
I have been attempting to capture the spirit of St. Lucia in prose(as opposed to poetry) - I have a modest effort in progress. "As he walked, lost in thought, the waves unfurled on the beach like giant lines of cocaine. The clarity of the scene was quite astonishing - almost as good as...
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Jul.07.2008
Went to Jalousie Beach today - it appears to be a facsimile of Germany in the late 1920's - rampant hyper-inflation - when you go in, a cup of coffee costs the equivalent of 3 dollars, and by the time you drink it, it's four hundred and thirty five thousand dollars and change. We're talking a...