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| When not in hospital.. (90%of time) pre boatclub party |
Incredible last few days!
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| Canons at Fort Charlotte |
Seeing as the hospital placement didn't
require much attendance so far, and an excuse in the form of “I
need to leave the hospital now to meet my friends in KFC” makes a
perfectly acceptable excuse to leave the hospital at 11am, we had
plenty of time to get ourselves entertained.
We are slowly ticking off “to do
things” in St Vincent. One of the recent trips included
sightseeing Fort Charlotte – beautifully towering over the capital
and the Caribbean Sea. In its glory in the year 1806 it included 30
canons and accommodated troops of 600 men. Well, it survived with
only 5 canons and the 5 mighty visitors (us) seeing it.
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| The views from the fort |
The views from the fort leave you
speechless. There is the city in the valley, hills covered in
rainforest, and one can see the few islands of the Grenadines from it
too.
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| Myself on top of the fort. background - Kingstown |
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| Tara, Sam, Katie, Amie, Me |
Another big attraction of Kingstown are
the Botanical Gardens – which are apparently the oldest in the
western hemisphere. Our guide “professor Sinclair” took us round
the lush green scenery, and picked up any leaf, grass or flower for
us to smell, lick, and taste. Imagine cinnamon, cloves, lemongrass,
stairfruit, ylang ylang and many more! In case any of the plants were
actually causing us upset stomachs he also gave us some laxative
plant to take home. (still holding on to it).
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| Botanical gardens. The newly wed aisle |
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| Peak-a-boo! |
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| "Professor" Sinclair with "Mickey Mouse" plant |
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| The traveller's plant |
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| Me and "scary monster plant" |
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| Black Rave, St Vincent |
As Carnival time is quick approaching
there is lots of events held in the city building up to it. We cashed
out 50eastern Caribbean dollars (12pounds each) to go to BLACK RAVE.
Think a big arena, with the best carribean artists, think dancing
/whining/grinding in the rain till the early hours of the morning,
once again powered by Sunset rum. Easily the best parties/raves I've
been to – especially with the regular 9 of us and some 3 other
elective students from Cambridge. If Carlsberg did parties.. this
still beats it!
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| At Black rave withh Newcastle and Sheffield students |
P.S. I am slowly disappearing off
the brown scale..
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