On Thursday we went ashore to visit the supermarket and use the internet at Restaurant L’Amer.  We stayed for a nice lunch and the waitress took this photograph:-

 

 

 

The next day we were back to watch France play Germany in the World Cup.  It’s not as much fun being honorary ‘Francaise’ when Germany wins. 

 

This was the view through the window beside the television:-

 

 

 

 

The obligatory French church picture:-

 

 

 

We are pottering about whist waiting for comfortable weather for the trip to Antigua so hired a car on Monday.  This would give us a chance to see the northern half of the west island which we didn’t cover in our last car trips.  This island is higher and greener and the scenery across the top of the island was very attractive but the towns, except for Deshaies are equally as uninteresting as on the eastern island.

 

We visited the ‘House in the Forest’ and took a short  walk through the undergrowth and across a few streams. 

 

The suspension bridge at the start:-

 

 

 

 

Then on to ‘The Waterfall’.  This turned out to be a popular picnic spot for the locals:-

 

 

 

It looked very inviting and we wished we had brought our swimming costumes.

 

Lin after her cooling paddle.  She didn’t even complain about the cold water:-

 

 

 

 

 

Another tourist:-

 

 

 

 

Downstream:-

 

 

 

It struck us just how much we were enjoying the lush greenery.  We are so accustomed to seeing the blue sea and sandy beaches and now realise that from time to time we want to feast our eyes on some greenery.  Quite the opposite to how we felt when we were ‘dirt dwellers’ – the phrase apparently used by Americans to describe those who haven’t yet gone off sailing.