Antigua - St Johns
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Nicholas & Deidre Mace
Sat 26 Jan 2019 16:14
After Jolly Harbour we sailed north to St Johns, the capital of Antigua as we’d heard the town was worthy of a visit. We arrived Friday afternoon, and so on Saturday we went sightseeing with our bikes.
The Saturday weekly market was on, and interesting to walk around. The market is stalls alongside the roads selling fresh produce, clothing, electronics, household goods and almost everything you can think of. Traffic was thick and local people everywhere.
They also have a Meat/Fish market which we did not go to, and a dedicated building for Fresh Produce, however it was not full, and prices more expensive than the street stalls - and hence assume the vendors inside have to pay rent. Lovely colorful displays of fruit and vegetables.
The Father of the Nation
National Fruit - the Black Pineapple
We then cycled many of the streets around town. The normal areas were nothing special with normal town stores and residential areas with usual timber frame and brick one stores houses. It was only in and around the tourist areas, close to the Big Cruise Ship docks that buildings were Heritage, maintained and painted in ‘caribbean colours’.
These 3 Cruise ships were in on Friday when we arrived, departing on Friday at sunset.
On Saturday morning, many of the designer shops servicing the passengers of these ships were closed.
The other stores, not on the Cruise Ship Quay, were all open for business.
Historic Redcliffe Quay
Ellies where I bought an Antigua sarong, and new sun hat.
Iconic Rastapasta store to stock up on Jamaican Rastafarian gear
I loved this Tourist Charter Bus
Saffers everywhere
Entrance to Heritage Quay and Cruise Ship docks
Vendors Mall Heritage Quay - everything you might need for your beach/cruise ship holiday
An interesting day of Sightseeing, but 1 day in St Johns is enough. St Johns is the main shipping port, and not somewhere you’d want to get into the water.
On leaving our anchor and chain came up black and sludgy, with a duvet cover on the anchor. The anchor and chain both need a good hosing down, and on getting out of the shipping channels, Nicholas had to lean over the front crossbar and lever the duvet off with the boat hook.
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