My nephew, Connor Corgard, a senior at Minnetonka High School, is big into sailing and was in Miami for a competition so we hooked up that evening and I took him and a buddy for their first visit to Hooters!
I boarded the Amsterdam on the 27th. It’s very busy at first with settling in – unpacking, reviewing procedures as after being home for 2 months when I didn’t need to even think about work it does take some catching up to get back in the swing of things. There are many crew as well as passengers that I have sailed with before so it feels like home already. New Year’s Eve was a great time had by all.
Today we visited French Martinique, which means the island of flowers. It has been several years since I was here and it was nice to see many improvements made. It is considered a “region” of France, they speak French and use Euros as their currency. It teased us with a little rain but I did manage to get a few photos. The sailboats always remind me of Connor and I believe he’ll probably sail these islands some day. I always like to try to imagine lifestyles in ports and in browsing some local stores I find things such as disposable goods are not plentiful so of course are expensive. A package of 20 small paper plates was 3.20€ - or about $5. People tend to buy fresh items frequently so items are in small quantities at the grocery stores – not the huge items we are used to buying in bulk at our Costcos or Sam’s Clubs.
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